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 ...

audio: Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and McGill University suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role in the complexity 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...