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Crissal Thrasher
Toxostoma crissale
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About the Crissal Thrasher
The crissal thrasher (Toxostoma crissale) is a large thrasher found in the Southwestern United States (western Texas, southern New Mexico, southern Arizona, southeastern California, extreme southern Nevada, and extreme southwestern Utah) to central Mexico.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Toxostoma crissale
- 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
- California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum
- Cozumel Thrasher Toxostoma guttatum
- Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
- Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum
- LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei
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