Sage thrasher
Oreoscoptes montanus
Identification Tips:
- 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.