Crissal Thrasher
The Crissal Thrasher seldom flies in the open, but moves furtively among streamside mesquite thickets, willows and other tangles. It is a large dark thrasher that is brown above with lighter gray-brown, unstreaked underparts and has a dark mustache line, yellow eyes and a deeply curved bill. Its undertail coverts are chestnut brown.

The Crissal Thrasher eats berries, wild grapes and insects. It most commonly builds a nest saddled on a branch or in a fork of mesquite trees, but also in willow, sagebrush, greasewood or other desert shrubs, usually 2 to 8 feet above the ground.

The Crissal Thrasher is a year-round resident in southeastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and western Texas southward. It prefers dense underbrush near desert streams and edges of canyon chaparral in the hot, low desert.
Crissal Thrasher Range Map

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