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Brown Thrasher

The Brown Thrasher’s latin name is Toxostoma rufum. It can be found all over the United States and Canada. Their preferred habitat is shrubby vegetation, overgrown fields, and vast plains. The Brown Thrasher breeds from February to June. In the winter, they migrate up North. Their population status is of least concern. The Brown Thrasher can be found year round at Coal Creek Farm. Their diet consists of grasshoppers, caterpillars, crickets, wasps, bees, lizards, snakes, berries, and fruit.

They are aggressive birds, especially when a female Brown Thrasher is protecting a Brown Thrasher nest that is full of Brown Thrasher eggs or a baby Brown Thrasher. There are over 1,000 Brown Thrasher songs, making it the bird with the largest song repertoire. The most common Brown Thrasher call sounds like a smacking kiss. And here’s a quick interesting fact. The Georgia state bird is the Georgia Brown Thrasher.

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