Bendire's Thrasher, Toxostoma bendirei
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![]() Bendire's Thrashers inhabit the desert West, where their range overlaps with that of the similar but more common and easily seen Curve-billed Thrashers. Bendire's are distinguished by their noticeably shorter bills, and are best seen when males sing to attract females in the early desert spring of February and March. On my February 2015 visit to Tucson, my friend the experienced local birder Dick Carlson helped me locate and photograph this male Bendire's in a mesquite by a dirt road in the Santa Cruz Flats, an expanse of irrigated Sonoran desert between Tucson and Phoenix. |
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