Long-billed Thrasher - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Stanley Jones
Harlingen Arroyo Colorado, Harlingen, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA, April-2019

Toxostoma longirostre

Identification

Photo © by Fernando Cerra
Photographed at the Sabal Palm Sancuary in southern Texas, April 2004

26 cm (10¼ in)

• Long tail
• Long de-curved bill
  

Nominate

• Greyish cheeks
• Greyish-brown upperparts
• Whitish underparts with black streak
• Orance eyes
• Two white wing bars
  

Sexes are similar

Similar Species

Compare with the Brown Thrasher of eastern North America

Distribution

Southern and western Texas and north-eastern Mexico.

Accidental vagrant to Colorado.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

This is a polytypic species^[1] consisting of two subspecies:

• T. l. sennetti:

• Arid southern Texas to north-eastern Mexico

• T. l. longirostre:

• East Mexico (north-eastern Querétaro to northern Puebla and central Veracruz)

Habitat

Riparian woodland. Brushy woodland; dense shrubs and thorny thickets. Occurs up to 1500 m.

Behaviour

Diet

They eat a variety of insects, such as grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, ants and moths.

Breeding

They are monogamous and may raise two broods each year.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2019)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Long-billed Thrasher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Long-billed_Thrasher

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