Sage Thrasher
Oreoscoptes montanus(Townsend, JK, 1837)
English (US) Sage Thrasher
The Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds in sagebrush of southern British Columbia to northern Arizona and northern New Mexico; winters from southern Nevada to western Texas and southward to Durango (central Mexico)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oreoscoptes montanus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sage Thrasher
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Orpheus montanus
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
- Type locality
- 'plains of the Rocky Mountains' = Sandy Creek, lat. 42° N., long. 109° 30' W., Wyoming.
- Original description
- Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7 p.192
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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