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BirdNote®
The Brown Thrasher’s Never-Ending Songbook
Written by Conor Gearin
This is BirdNote.
You may know the copycat songs of the Northern Mockingbirds —
[Northern Mockingbird song, ML 166628, 0:38-044]
— but they’re not the only bird impersonators in town. Brown Thrashers also learn songs from nearby birds and add them to their repertoire.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, start at 1:03, fade under next sentences]
The species has been documented to sing more than eleven hundred different songs: a mix of imitations and invented little melodies. While mockingbirds usually repeat a song or phrase three or more times before moving on, Brown Thrashers tend to repeat a phrase only twice.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, 1:41-1:46]
Brown Thrashers are striking birds, with bright yellow eyes, cinnamon-brown backs and wings, and a white breast with dark stripes. They swing their large beaks over leaves on the ground to uncover seeds and insects.
The species nests in hedges and shrub thickets. Its population has declined by about 41% since 1966, as its nesting habitats have shrunk.
Brown Thrashers live year-round in the Southeastern US, and breed in the Northeast, Midwest, and Great Plains. Getting to know your local thrasher can be rewarding — you never know when they’ll have a new song to perform.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, 2:25-2:29]
For BirdNote, I’m Ariana Remmel.
This episode is brought to you by the Bobolink Foundation.
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Senior Producer: John Kessler
Content Director: Allison Wilson
Producer: Mark Bramhill
Associate Producer: Ellen Blackstone
Managing Producer: Conor Gearin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Northern Mockingbird ML 166628 recorded by R. Bethel, and Brown Thrasher ML 98812 recorded by G. Keller.
The BirdNote theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
© 2022 BirdNote March 2022 Narrator: Ariana Remmel
ID# BRTH-01-2022-03-23 BRTH-01
Sources: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnthr/cur/introduction
https://bioone.org/journals/the-condor/volume-119/issue-3/CONDOR-17-83…
BirdNote®
The Brown Thrasher’s Never-Ending Songbook
Written by Conor Gearin
This is BirdNote.
You may know the copycat songs of the Northern Mockingbirds —
[Northern Mockingbird song, ML 166628, 0:38-044]
— but they’re not the only bird impersonators in town. Brown Thrashers also learn songs from nearby birds and add them to their repertoire.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, start at 1:03, fade under next sentences]
The species has been documented to sing more than eleven hundred different songs: a mix of imitations and invented little melodies. While mockingbirds usually repeat a song or phrase three or more times before moving on, Brown Thrashers tend to repeat a phrase only twice.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, 1:41-1:46]
Brown Thrashers are striking birds, with bright yellow eyes, cinnamon-brown backs and wings, and a white breast with dark stripes. They swing their large beaks over leaves on the ground to uncover seeds and insects.
The species nests in hedges and shrub thickets. Its population has declined by about 41% since 1966, as its nesting habitats have shrunk.
Brown Thrashers live year-round in the Southeastern US, and breed in the Northeast, Midwest, and Great Plains. Getting to know your local thrasher can be rewarding — you never know when they’ll have a new song to perform.
[Brown Thrasher song, ML 98812, 2:25-2:29]
For BirdNote, I’m Ariana Remmel.
This episode is brought to you by the Bobolink Foundation.
###
Senior Producer: John Kessler
Content Director: Allison Wilson
Producer: Mark Bramhill
Associate Producer: Ellen Blackstone
Managing Producer: Conor Gearin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Northern Mockingbird ML 166628 recorded by R. Bethel, and Brown Thrasher ML 98812 recorded by G. Keller.
The BirdNote theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
© 2022 BirdNote March 2022 Narrator: Ariana Remmel
ID# BRTH-01-2022-03-23 BRTH-01
Sources: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnthr/cur/introduction
https://bioone.org/journals/the-condor/volume-119/issue-3/CONDOR-17-83…
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