brown thrasher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brown thrasher
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Georgia picked the brown thrasher, a fiercely territorial bird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019
“In 2015, I had great blue heron, red-bellied woodpecker, American crow, American robin, brown thrasher, northern parula, pine warbler, yellow-throated warbler, chipping sparrow, white-throated sparrow.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019
This was a brown thrasher, he told me, describing its attributes with a mix of precision and fondness — “rufous brown, speckled on the breast, yellow eye, curved beak, long tail.”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2019
Official state bird: brown thrasher Brown thrasher Courtesy of ibm4381/Flickr No, not this Nene.
From Slate • May 17, 2013
I stretched back in the sun and hummed the song of the brown thrasher and of Barometer, the nuthatch.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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