Leconte’s Thrasher

• Scientific Name: Toxostoma Lecontei
• Common Name: Leconte's Thrasher
• Diet: insects, spiders, small animals
• Color: pale gray
• Size: 11 inches
• Active Period: Year-round
• Habitat: valleys
• Field Identification: long down-curved bill, gray belly, dark eye, runs with tail cocked
• Nest: cup
• Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
• Genus: Toxostoma
• Family: Mimidae (mimids)
• Order: Passeriformes
• Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
• Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
• Species: lecontei