The northern mockingbird is a well-known member of a family of birds called mimic thrushes. It lives here all year and, true to its name, imitates the songs of other birds. You probably also know the ...

Gray Catbirds are in a bird family known as the “Mimidae” – because they mimic other birds, other animals, and even ...

It was one of those stunning September mornings. The air was crisp, the sky was full of high clouds, and a light dew had fallen during the night. My walk through the meadow required a little care to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - The Brown Thrasher is a common bird throughout Arkansas, year-round. They are in the same family as the Northern Mockingbird, and though their plumage is quite different ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of our brown thrasher, songbird of the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My young friend Ruthie (age 8 ½) sent me pictures of a robin-sized bird with ...

Songbird distribution can vary dramatically, sometimes in direct conflict with what’s written in scientifically researched field guides. All my field guides show brown thrashers as occurring primarily ...

Charles Seabrook’s “Wild Georgia” column appears weekly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The brown thrasher, a big, foxy red songbird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types, became ...

The brown thrasher is a big, bright, beautiful bird with captivating yellow eyes. This particular bird landed on a dead tree branch about 20 feet in front of me. / PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up for ...

Have you ever cleaned up one of your flower beds only to walk back out there to see it back in the very mess you just spent half the day cleaning up? I can’t begin to tell you the messes I have seen ...

If you should ever peer into a thicket and here a thrashing sound and see dead leaves flying in all directions, don’t be concerned. Most likely it is simply a brown thrasher on the feed. This large ...