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The Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is a bird found in United States and Canada. Thickets and gardens in eastern North America. It eats insects and other small invertebrates, fruit and seeds and nuts. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Brown thrasher lives

Thickets and gardens in eastern North America.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐛 Insects & bugs50%
• 🍎 Fruit30%
• 🌰 Seeds & nuts20%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by Sydney Grant (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC1181409. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Brown thrasher

Where does the Brown thrasher live?

The Brown thrasher lives in United States and Canada. Thickets and gardens in eastern North America.

What does the Brown thrasher eat?

insects and other small invertebrates (about 50%), fruit (about 30%), seeds and nuts (about 20%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Brown thrasher endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from North America

• American bushtit
• Summer tanager
• Caspian tern
• White-eyed vireo
• Eastern meadowlark
• Yellow-olive flatbill

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.