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California Thrasher
Toxostoma redivivum
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About the California Thrasher
The California thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) is a large member of family Mimidae found primarily in chaparral habitat in California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. It is the only species of the genus Toxostoma throughout most of its range.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Toxostoma redivivum
- Family
- Mockingbirds and Thrashers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the mockingbirds and thrashers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii
- Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens
- Blue-and-white Mockingbird Melanotis hypoleucus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Cozumel Thrasher Toxostoma guttatum
- Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale
- Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
- Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum
- LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei
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