General Description: Curve-billed Thrashers (Toxostoma curvirostre) are large, sexually monomorphic, light gray-brown birds with a long, black, decurved bill and a big yellow eye. The chest and belly are faintly spotted, the throat is light, and the bill is all dark. The song is a long series of sharp, short, musical phrases that are not repeated. Call is a distinctive, sharp "whit-whit," or sometimes "whit-whit-whit."

Taxonomy: Passeriformes, Mimidae.

Favored Habitat: Sonoran Desert thorn-scrub, semi-desert with mesquite and cholla cactus.

Where to Find: Don't look for Curve-billed Thrasher around Las Vegas. Rather, look for them on trips to the Sonoran Desert where they can be found from southern Arizona to Texas. Do keep an eye out in the southern part of our state, as several have been living in the Searchlight area since 2012. Perhaps this species is moving north in response to a warming climate.

Comments: Sings a soft, but long and involved song that goes on and on.