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title: "Brown Thrasher"
description: "Toxostoma rufum — Birds. The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush or fox-coloured thrush, is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/brown-thrasher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown Thrasher

> Toxostoma rufum — Birds. The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush or fox-coloured thrush, is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds.

- Scientific name: *Toxostoma rufum*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 51120
- Wikidata: [Q928134](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q928134)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14898](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14898)

## Names

- en: Brown Thrasher
- de: Rote Spottdrossel
- es: Cuicacoche castaño
- fr: Moqueur roux
- pt: Debulhador
- pl: Przedrzeźniacz rudy

## Countries with the most observations

US (42577), CA (4856), MX (16)

## Summary

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush or fox-coloured thrush, is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The brown thrasher is abundant throughout the eastern and central United States and southern and central Canada, and it is the only thrasher to live primarily east of the Rockies and central Texas. It is the state bird of Georgia.
As a member of the genus Toxostoma, the bird is relatively large-sized among the other thrashers. It has brown upper parts with a white under part with dark streaks. Because of this, it is…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_thrasher

## Photo

![Brown Thrasher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-thrasher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110579205

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-thrasher?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).