Sage Thrasher Images

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.

 

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