• Enjoying the Mississippi River

    Mississippi

    National River & Recreation Area Minnesota

Brown Thrasher

Brown Thrasher
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Brown Thrashers (Toxostoma rufum) are very active birds. Usually found on the ground in dense thickets, they are almost one foot in length, with a long, curved beak and a long tail. In 1935, the brown thrasher was named the state bird of Georgia.

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Mississippi River Watershed

The Mississippi River Basin, or watershed, drains 41% of the continental United States including 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces.