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BOTD: California Thrasher

Photo: Wendy Miller

"Several kinds of dull gray-brown thrashers occur in the West, but this is the only one along the California coast. The bird's normal range is limited to California and a corner of Baja, but within that range it is quite common in the chaparral, even coming into brushy suburbs. It spends most of its time on the ground, walking and running with its tail often held high, stopping to dig in the dirt with its sickle-shaped bill."

- Audubon Field Guide

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[1999/11056] California thrasher - Toxostoma redivivum

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Muscicapoidea Family: Mimidae

Photo credit: Braxton Landsman via Macaulay Library

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June 29, 2016 - California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)

Requested by: @gepwin

These large thrashers are found only in California and Baja California. They eat insects and fruit, foraging mostly on the ground in leaf litter and using their curved beaks to dig. Nesting in dense shrubs, they build platforms of coarse twigs, roots, and stems. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. Often raising two broods a year, males may finish care for the first brood while females begin the second.

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