Thrasher

or Thresher, a thrush-like bird common in the United States. It is related to the mockingbird and the catbird. The best known is the brown thrasher, also called the sandy mockingbird from its color and power of mimicry. The brown thrasher is a fine songster. It frequents shrubbery and underbrush. It is about eleven inches in length with a long tail and short wings. Color, bright reddish above, under parts whitish shaded with cinnamon and marked with chain-like cinnamon streaks. It builds a bulky nest of twigs, leaves, etc., in a bush or occasionally on the ground in which it lays six whitish or greenish eggs profusely speckled with brown. The California thrasher has a long, curved bill and is different in color from the brown thrasher. Other varieties, all found near the Mexican border, are the bow-billed, the Arizona, the St. Lucas, the Yuma, and the Crissal.