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eppur_se_muova

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3. We have brown thrashers here (north AL -- GA state bird) but I'd never heard of this more southern (sub?)species.

Reply to Bo Zarts (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:52 PM

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Funny thing is, the thrashers I see in our back yard seem to have more downcurved bills than the ones I see in photographs online.

Maybe there's inbreeding going on, and some populations of hybrids w/curved bills of intermediate length ?

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