While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." —Henry David ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of ...

I heard the paired notes of a singing male brown thrasher on Saturday, March 29, confirming the return of this large songbird. The thrasher was singing from a dead blue spruce tree surrounded by a ...

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 ...

Over the past few months, For The Bids: The Birdsong Project has been rolling out in five separate volumes, and each one has had a stacked contributor list. The ambitious project was organized by ...

The distinctive reddish-brown color and long tail of the brown thrasher make it recognizable, but its vocal array may be its most impressive feature. More than 1,000 song variations may be used by a ...