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Brown thrasher

Toxostoma rufum · Family Mimidae

Toxostoma rufum

Family Mimidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Mimidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,624,319
Countries and territories with records
11
Brown thrasher
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About this species

This species has 3,624,319 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (93%) and Canada (7%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Toxostoma rufum combines the genus name Toxostoma with the species epithet rufum. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Toxostoma; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Toxostoma curvirostre, Toxostoma redivivum and Toxostoma longirostre.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Mimidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Mimus polyglottos. Its record count is 4.4 times the family average (830,852). The family Mimidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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