Lagniappe: When you go out for a drink and get a free dinner too!

[Bo Zarts]

Curved-bill Thrasher - South Texas - February 2026
©2026 Bo Zarts Studio

[3catwoman3]

1. I haven't seen that word in a long time.

Thnx for the vocabulary refresher and the good picture. Bon appetit, birdie!

[Easterncedar]

2. Paul Prudhomme's cookbook taught me that word

Nice reminder. Funny, too.

Great caption for a really delightful photograph.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. We have brown thrashers here (north AL -- GA state bird) but I'd never heard of this more southern (sub?)species.

Funny thing is, the thrashers I see in our back yard seem to have more downcurved bills than the ones I see in photographs online.

Maybe there's inbreeding going on, and some populations of hybrids w/curved bills of intermediate length ?

[Bo Zarts]

4. I'm originally from Georgia, and I thought these were Brown thrashers too.

Well, they are obviously thrashers .. and they are brown. But I was corrected post haste by the "real" birders in my group, bless their hearts.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. No, one does not want to cross the "real" birders. nt