Tom Vezo / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona

Rolf Nussbaumer / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) adult with moth prey. Laredo, Webb County, South Texas, USA, April.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) adult perched on Christmas Cholla (Opuntia leptocaulis). Laredo, Webb County, South Texas, USA, April.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Two Curve-billed Thrashers (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched. Laredo, Webb County, South Texas, USA, April.

Gerrit Vyn / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre curvirostre) portrait, this subspeices has conspicuous breast spotting compared to Western birds. Hidalgo County, Texas, USA March.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on Texas Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia lindheimeri) Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA

John Cancalosi / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on cholla cactus and feeding on seeds, Arizona, USA

John Cancalosi / Curve-billed Thrasher chicks (Toxostoma curvirostre) with adult attending young on nest, Arizona, USA

Claudio Contreras / Curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) feeding on Pitaya cactus fruit (Stenocereus griseus) Jaumave desert, northeast Mexico, May

Donald M. Jones / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), southern Arizona

John Cancalosi / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on cholla cactus, Arizona, USA

John Cancalosi / Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) on Cholla cactus (Cylindropuntia sp.), Arizona, USA