Long-billed Thrasher Similar Species Comparison
Main SpeciesLong-billed Thrasher
Adult
Hefty with a long tail and bill. Other stand out features include gray face, yellow eye, and heavily streaked belly. More brown than rusty like the similar Brown Thrasher.
© Darren Clark / Macaulay LibraryTexas, March 01, 2020Adult
Forages primarily on the ground. Brown overall with dark streaks on belly. Yellow eye stands out on gray cheek.
© Simon Kiacz / Macaulay LibraryTexas, March 06, 2020Adult
About the size of a robin. Sings from conspicuous perches, otherwise stays closer to the ground. Note long tail and bill.
© mark daly / Macaulay LibraryTexas, October 13, 2019Habitat
Found in woodlands near streams and dense thickets.
© Tim Lenz / Macaulay LibraryTexas, November 26, 2012Similar SpeciesBrown Thrasher
Adult
Wintering Brown Thrashers overlap with Long-billed Thrashers in Texas and eastern Mexico. Brown Thrashers have more reddish brown backs, a more brownish face, and unstreaked undertail coverts.
© Nathan Dubrow / Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, April 19, 2016Similar SpeciesCurve-billed Thrasher
Adult/immature
Curve-billed Thrashers are grayish overall instead of brown like the Long-billed Thrasher and lack the Long-billed's black belly streaks.
© Tom Benson / Macaulay LibraryCalifornia, December 05, 2015
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