#1310 · 🐦 birds

Brown Thrasher

🇳🇱 Rosse Spotlijster ·Toxostoma rufum

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0
2. © Maria Andreina Pacheco · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Coleen Lawlor · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Howard Patterson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © psweet · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © Irvin Louque · CC BY 4.0
9. © brian stahls · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © lunabelle · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The brown thrasher ( Toxostoma rufum ), sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush or fox-coloured thrush , is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The brown thrasher is abundant throughout the eastern and central United States and southern and central Canada, and it is the only thrasher to live primarily east of the Rockies and central Texas. It is the state bird of Georgia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 51,926iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
51,926 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).