Thrasher

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This article is about the bird. For the professional wrestler, see Glen Ruth. For the skateboarding magazine, see Thrasher magazine.

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae
Genera
Allenia Margarops Oreoscoptes Ramphocinclus Toxostoma

Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds.

Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or dead leaves. All of these birds eat insects and several species also eat berries.

Genus Allenia

• Scaly-breasted Thrasher Allenia fusca

Genus Margarops

• Pearly-eyed Thrasher Margarops fuscatus

Genus Oreoscoptes

• Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus

Genus Ramphocinclus

• White-breasted Thrasher Ramphocinclus brachyurus

Genus Toxostoma

• Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei
• Vizcaino Thrasher Toxostoma arenicola
• Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum
• Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale
• Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
• Cozumel Thrasher Toxostoma guttatum
• Le Conte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei
• Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
• Ocellated Thrasher Toxostoma ocellatum
• California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum
• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

[edit] Gallery

Pearly-eyed thrasher, a common bird in the British Virgin Islands

[edit] External links

• Thrasher videos on the Internet Bird Collection