TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Brown Thrasher Side View Brown Thrasher- Toxostoma rufum, Brown Thrasher- Toxostoma rufum, Order PASSERIFORMES - Family MIMIDAE. Today was a wonderful birding day--temps in the mid 70's, clear skies, and excellent lighting (at least in the early morning). Brown Thrashers were were quite abundant on Saturday, Sep 11 in the Shaker Trace Wetlands in the Miami Whitewater Forest area in SW Ohio. (Photo: Sep 11, 2004, Canon EOS 1D Mark II digital camera with 500mm f/4 L IS lens and 2.0X II TC) For More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Brown_Thrasher.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.