It was one of those stunning September mornings. The air was crisp, the sky was full of high clouds, and a light dew had fallen during the night. My walk through the meadow required a little care to ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of our brown thrasher, songbird of the ...

While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...

Any consideration of the emblematic bird of summer in the Red River Valley surely must include the brown thrasher. This is the personal choice of Suezette, my partner, and that alone weighs heavily in ...

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) lives out its days in relative seclusion. Like the gray catbird, which has a similar fondness for thickets and shrubby areas, brown thrashers haunt areas of dense ...