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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
The Brown Thrasher is a consummate songster and mimic. "The male flies to the top of a tree, especially in the early evening, and sings for minutes on end, as many as 30 or 40 variations of its own song, with the notes of blackbirds, Willets, orioles, kingbirds, Vesper Sparrows and many others thrown in for good measure? (Roy 1996). It is a summer resident from central Alberta to the Maritimes south through the US east of the Rockies. Wintering is mainly in the southeastern states.
Brown Thrashers favour brush and thickets, whether the artificial shelterbelts and hedgerows of farms and acreages or the natural shrubbery of coulees and riverbanks. "In Grasslands it frequents riparian brush and shrubbery on the north-facing valley slopes, while in the parklands it uses the edges of aspen groves and sunny glades in aspen forest. Although formerly absent on the southern edge of the Boreal Forest, the species is now locally common wherever the land has been cleared? (Smith 1996).
The Brown Thrasher is a fairly common summer resident throughout most of the settled south. An unusual northernmost record is of a bird at Hasbala Lake 2 Jul 1973 (Hooper 1975).
Original text by Joan Feather. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Brown Thrasher in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Brown Thrasher in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=BRTH&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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