Sage Thrasher Images, Facts and Information:
Oreoscoptes montanus
- Sage Thrashers have long legs and tails, yellow eyes, spotted breasts and gray-brown upper parts.
- Sage Thrashers are sagebrush obligates meaning that they require sagebrush for some part of their life cycle.
- They are the smallest of North American Thrashers and are thought to be more closely related to Northern Mockingbirds than thrashers.
- Sage Thrashers are migratory. Sage Thrashers are found throughout the western U.S. where they breed exclusively in sagebrush steppe. Sage Thrashers winter in southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Baja California and northern Mexico.
- The males are incredible songsters and can sing up to 20 minutes without stopping.
- Sage Thrashers eat terrestrial insects including grasshoppers, ants and ground beetles. They will also eat berries and grapes.
- They are also called “Mountain Mockingbirds”
- Sage Thrashers lay between 4 to 7 eggs which take 13 to 17 days to hatch. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- Sage Thrasher populations are declining due to habit destruction and may be very susceptible to climate change.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Sage Thrasher photos.
Spring Sage Thrasher portrait
Title: Spring Sage Thrasher portrait
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 4/1/2021
Sage Thrasher near a desert seep
Title: Sage Thrasher near a desert seep
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Perched adult Sage Thrasher
Title: Perched adult Sage Thrasher
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Sage Thrasher with a Fragrant Sumac seed in its bill
Title: Sage Thrasher with a Fragrant Sumac seed in its bill
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Sage Thrasher after regurgitating a sumac seed
Title: Sage Thrasher after regurgitating a sumac seed
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Sage Thrasher with its bill open
Title: Sage Thrasher with its bill open
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Adult Sage Thrasher perched on top of a sumac
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher perched on top of a sumac
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Adult Sage Thrasher portrait
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher portrait
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2020
Crouching Sage Thrasher adult on a metal post
Title: Crouching Sage Thrasher adult on a metal post
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/11/2020
Adult Sage Thrasher perched in golden light
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher perched in golden light
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Sage Thrasher with Fragrant Sumac berry in mid air
Title: Sage Thrasher with Fragrant Sumac berry in mid air
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Alert Sage Thrasher with Wild Rose hips
Title: Alert Sage Thrasher with Wild Rose hips
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Sage Thrasher sitting pretty in a Wild Rose
Title: Sage Thrasher sitting pretty in a Wild Rose
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Adult Sage Thrasher with a fruit pit hanging from its bill by saliva
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher with a fruit pit hanging from its bill by saliva
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Immature Sage Thrasher with fruit on a Wild Rose
Title: Immature Sage Thrasher with fruit on a Wild Rose
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Sage Thrasher fluffing its feathers on a Wild Rose
Title: Sage Thrasher fluffing its feathers on a Wild Rose
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Adult Sage Thrasher, Wild Rose Hips and morning light
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher, Wild Rose Hips and morning light
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Adult Sage Thrasher perched on a Wild Rose
Title: Adult Sage Thrasher perched on a Wild Rose
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2018
Sage Thrasher portrait
Title: Sage Thrasher portrait
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 8/9/2016
Immature Sage Thrasher portrait
Title: Immature Sage Thrasher portrait
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 8/9/2016