Le Conte's thrasher
Toxostoma lecontei
Identification Tips:
- Length: 9.25 inches
- Long, decurved bill
- Dark eye
- Pale throat
- Gray-brown plumage
- Belly and undertail coverts brown
- Long dark tail
- Dark legs
- Sexes similar
- Prefers arid habitats in southwestern United States
Similar species:
California and Crissal Thrashers are darker. Crissal has rustier undertail
coverts and California has a paler supercilium and darker cheeks. Other
thrashers have spotted underparts and pale eyes.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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