Le Conte's Thrasher

Toxostoma leconteiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)

Codes: Common Name: LCTH Scientific Name: TOXLEC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178645

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Le Conte's Thrasher Breeding Adult Portrait

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Le Conte's Thrasher

Le Conte's Thrasher: Medium thrasher with plain gray or gray-brown body with paler throat and rufous undertail feathers. Eyes are dark. Bill is long, decurved, and black. Tail is long and dark. Legs and feet are black. Feeds on insects and their larvae, spiders, fruits and berries.

● Song: "tweep", "ch-reeip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Le Conte's Thrasher: Diet consists primarily of arthropods, including scorpions, spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars; occasionally eats seeds, small lizards, or other small vertebrates; forages on the ground and by digging with bill and feet, sometimes several inches deep into substrate.

● Breeding & nesting: Le Conte's Thrasher: Two to four blue green eggs with brown spots at larger end are laid in a bulky twig nest lined with feathers. Eggs are incubated for 15 days by both parents.

● Similar species: Le Conte's Thrasher: California Thrasher is larger and darker.

Flight Pattern

Short flights wih shallow wing beats.

Le Conte's Thrasher Breeding Adult Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Le Conte's Thrasher: Resident in deserts of southwestern U.S. from southeastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and western and central Arizona to northwestern Mexico. Found in open desert scrub, alkali desert scrub, and desert succulent scrub.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationYes but uncommon

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight2.2 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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