[Curve-billed x Brown Thrasher (hybrid)]

Toxostoma curvirostre x ToXOSTOMA rufum

Status: No accepted records.

Comments: An interesting development related to the long stay (2002-2008) of a Curve-billed Thrasher at the Frimann Ranch, Sioux Co (see Curve-billed Thrasher species account HERE) was the presence within a brood of otherwise normal Brown Thrasher nestlings there of one with a gray head and back (Joseph Gubanyi, personal communication; Mollhoff 2022). There is a previous record of a possible hybrid between Curve-billed and Brown Thrashers (Phillips 1986).

Literature Cited

Cavitt, J.F., A.T. Pearse, and D.A. Rintoul. 1998. Hybridization of Mountain Bluebird and Eastern Bluebird In Northeastern Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin 49: 21-25.

Mollhoff, W.J. 2022. Nest records of Nebraska birds. Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Occasional Paper Number 9.

Phillips, A.R. 1986. The known birds of North and Middle America. Part 1. Published by the author, Denver, Colorado, USA.

 Recommended Citation

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2023. [Curve-billed x Brown Thrasher (hybrid)] (Toxostoma curvirostre x T. rufum). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org

Updated 9 Jul 2023