Population Estimate: Unknown, but Least Concern status
Range / Habitat: Year- round in chaparral of California and Baja California.
Field Notes: Large, long-tailed songbird. Overall brown with faint white eyebrow and "whiskers". Long, decurved bill. Crissal Thrasher has little overlap, darker and grayer all over, has a black mustache stripe, light eyes, and reddish under the tail. Le Conte's Thrasher is paler sandy gray, with the pale belly contrasting with the wash of rusty under the tail. Curve-billed Thrasher also with little overlapping range, but has spotting on the chest and orange eyes.
Personal Notes: Our last spot at dusk in Big Morongo Preserve outside Joshua Tree National Park.
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