Sage thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus

Identification Tips:

• Length: 7 inches
• Slender bill
• Pale gray head and upperparts
• Yellow eye
• White underparts with extensive black spotting
• Long gray tail with paler tip
• Faint wing bars
• Sexes similar
• Juvenile somewhat browner

Similar species:

Bendire's and Curve-billed Thrashers have decurved bills, browner upperparts, and less spotted underparts. Juvenile Northern Mockingbird is also mostly gray with spotted underparts but it has white wing patches.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.