Long-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher: Medium, shy thrasher with gray-washed brown upperparts and heavily streaked, pale underparts. Eyes are orange. Bill is long, black, and decurved. Wings have two white bars. Tail is long and rufous. Legs and feet are brown. Eats insects, small amphibians and fruit.
● Song:
"tsuck", "kleak", "cheeooep"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Long-billed Thrasher: Eats insects, small amphibians, and fruits; forages on the ground and low in trees and shrubs.
● Breeding & nesting:
Long-billed Thrasher: Two to five blue green to pale green eggs speckled with red brown are laid in a cup nest made of prickly sticks, lined with straw and grass, and built 4 to10 feet above the ground in a shrub or small tree. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by both parents.
● Similar species:
Long-billed Thrasher: Brown Thrasher has a shorter and less down-curved bill and browner upperparts.