General
Long-billed Thrasher: Medium-sized, secretive thrasher with gray-washed brown upperparts and heavily streaked, pale underparts. Eyes are orange. Bill is long, black, and decurved. Wings have two white bars. Tail is long and rufous. Sexes are similar.
Range and Habitat
Long-billed Thrasher: Resident in south-central Texas and northeastern Mexico. Found in dense tangles and thickets in both open country and wooded areas.
Breeding and Nesting
Long-billed Thrasher: Two to five blue green to pale green eggs speckled with red brown are laid in a cup nest made of prickly sticks, lined with straw and grass, and built 4 to10 feet above the ground in a shrub or small tree. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by both parents.
Foraging and Feeding
Long-billed Thrasher: Eats insects, small amphibians, and fruits; forages on the ground and low in trees and shrubs.
Readily Eats
Suet, Sunflower Seed, Nuts
Vocalization
Long-billed Thrasher: Call is a "tsuck" or soft "kleak"; also a bold, flutelike "cheeooep."
Similar Species
Long-billed Thrasher: Brown Thrasher has a shorter and less down-curved bill and browner upperparts.