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Toxostoma rufum (Brown Thrasher)

Synonyms: Turdus rufus (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The dispersal of the brown thrasher is abundant throughout the eastern and central United States, southern and central Canada, and is the only thrasher to live primarily east of the Rockies and central Texas. It is the state bird of Georgia.
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Infraspecies

Toxostoma rufum longicauda
Toxostoma rufum rufum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.49307
EDGE Score: 2.01398
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  68 grams
Birth Weight [3]  6 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  4
Fledging [1]  12 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  6,100,000
Incubation [3]  13 days
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  13 years
Female Maturity [3]  9 months 4 days
Male Maturity [3]  9 months 4 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Emblem of

Georgia (US)

Prey / Diet

Aralia spinosa (devil's walkingstick)[7]
Condalia hookeri (Brazilian bluewood)[8]
Phytolacca americana (common pokeweed)[7]
Toxicodendron pubescens (poison oak)[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus diffinis[9]

Range Map

External References

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Audio

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Characteristics of Some Fruiting Plant Species in Northwest Arkansas, and the Avian Assemblages that Feed on Them, John W. Prather, Kimberly G. Smith, Michael A. Mlodinow, Cecilia M. Riley, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science,Vol. 54, 2000, pp. 103-108
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9International Flea Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0