Le Conte's Thrasher

Taxobox
name = Le Conte's Thrasher
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Mimidae
genus = "Toxostoma"
species = "T. lecontei"
binomial = "Toxostoma lecontei"
binomial_authority = (Lawrence, 1851)

The Le Conte's Thrasher ("Toxostoma lecontei") is a pale bird found in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It prefers to live in deserts with very little vegetation, where it blends in with the sandy soils. The palest of all thrashers, it grows to 28 cm (11 inches).

Le Conte's Thrasher is named for American entomologist John Lawrence LeConte.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds", Western Region, pg. 522

Further reading

Book

* Sheppard, J. M. 1996. "Le Conte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei)". In "The Birds of North America", No. 230 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.

Thesis

* Sheppard JM. M.A. (1973). "AN INITIAL STUDY OF LE CONTE'S THRASHER (TOXOSTOMA LECONTEI)". California State University, Long Beach, United States -- California.

Articles

* Brooks M. (1999). "Effects of protective fencing on birds, lizards, and black-tailed hares in the Western Mojave Desert". Environmental Management. vol 23, no 3. p. 387-400.

* Farnsworth A. (2001). "WatchList species as viewed through the Christmas Bird Count database". American Birds. vol 102, p. 29-31.

* Hill HO. (1980). "Breeding Birds in a Desert Scrub Community in Southern Nevada USA". Southwestern Naturalist. vol 25, no 2. p. 173-180.

* Patten MA, Erickson RA & Unitt P. (2004). "Population changes and biogeographic affinities of the birds of the Salton Sink, California/Baja California". Studies in Avian Biology. vol 27, p. 24-32.

* Rich T & Rothstein SI. (1985). "Sage Thrashers Oreoscoptes-Montanus Reject Cowbird Molothrus-Ater Eggs". Condor. vol 87, no 4. p. 561-562.

* Riddle BR & Hafner DJ. (2006). "A step-wise approach to integrating phylogeographic and phylogenetic biogeographic perspectives on the history of a core North American warm deserts biota". Journal of Arid Environments. vol 66, no 3. p. 435-461.

* Sheppard JM. (1970). "A Study of the Le Contes Thrasher". California Birds. vol 1, no 3. p. 85-94.

* Zink RM, Blackwell RC & Rojas-Soto O. (1997). "Species limits in the Le Conte's thrasher". Condor. vol 99, no 1. p. 132-138.

* Zink RM, Dittmann DL, Klicka J & Blackwell-Rago RC. (1999). "Evolutionary patterns of morphometrics, allozymes, and mitochondrial DNA in thrashers (genus Toxostoma)". Auk. vol 116, no 4. p. 1021-1038.

* Zink RM, Kessen AE, Line TV & Blackwell-Rago RC. (2001). "Comparative phylogeography of some aridland bird species". Condor. vol 103, no 1. p. 1-10.