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Brown thrasher   /braʊn θrˈæʃər/   Listen
Brown thrasher

noun
1.
Common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage.  Synonyms: brown thrush, Toxostoma rufums.






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"Brown thrasher" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his subject as to produce the impression that the lyric must have been written not by an aged poet but by the bird himself. Reading the poem one seems to hear the brown thrasher on a twig of the wild-apple tree, pouring his heart out over the thicket which his mate has just ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... phœbe-bird, with her sweet April call and mossy nest under the bridge or woodshed, or under the shelving rocks; or the brown thrasher—mocking thrush—calling half furtively, half archly from the treetop back in the bushy pastures: "Croquet, croquet, hit it, hit it, come to me, come to me, tight it, tight it, you're out, you're out," with many ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs



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