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Curve-Billed Thrasher (Toxostoma longirostre) |
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DESCRIPTION:
L=11" (28cm). Sexes similar. Overall brown, with some mottling on breast
and light-colored chin. Bill is long and down-curved. Eye usually yellowish-orange.
Song is a beautiful set of trills and warbles, with no obvious pauses for
breath and little repitition of phrases as in northern. Call is a loud,
distinctive "whit wheet". NATURAL HISTORY: Diet composed of small invertebrates, fruits, berries, and nectar (often seen feeding on saguaro nectar). Pairs remain together on territory year-round . |
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updated June 6, 2001
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