The ferocious thresher or hawala bird
Thresher:
It
is a name given to a group of brown, long-tailed birds spread in an area
extending from southern Canada to South America. The thresher belongs to the
New World Passeriformes group.
It is
located within the mimetic family.
It includes 15 families in 4 main species.
The most
famous type is the brown thresher, which lives in eastern North America.
This bird may have taken its name from its habit
of moving its long tail up and down as if it were studying wheat, especially
when it was excited. Most threshers have a brown head and back, and a dull
underside with brown lines.
The
largest type of thresher reaches more than 30 cm in length.
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Description:
Most of these varieties have a long, arched
beak.
Species
that live in arid regions of the southwestern United States have longer legs
and shorter wings.
These
species run more than they fly, and build their nests in thorny shrubs or
cacti.
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Spread:
There are eight species of thresher birds that spread from western North America to Central America.
There
are four species that live only in the West Indies, two of
which
are:
The
white-breasted shiver and the brown shiver are endangered. Both of these
species are very fearful birds that live on the ground.
Tremors took their name from their habit of
shaking their bodies and wings.
The rest
of the species in the West Indies, the pearl-eyed thresher and the
crustacean-breasted thresher, live in trees. The pearl-eyed thresher is the
most widespread in the West Indies. It nests in dens in trees.
What are some interesting facts about thrashers?
Tweet of the brown thresher:
The male brown thresher has the greatest tweet assortment of all North
American birds, with some studies indicating that it
has issued at least 1,100 different tweets, while others indicate that it has
about 3,000 different tweets, and a third stating that it is capable of issuing
more than that. A clear musical tone appears in the chirp of the male thresher,
in contrast to the chirp of the closely related gray meow.
Tweeting is an expression of a series of short,
fast musical phrases that the bird usually makes in pairs and over a period of
several minutes.
The male turns into a kinder and softer pattern
during the fall, but in the winter his tweet often may be an expression of an
argument with the males with neighboring Ahwaz.
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The chirping of young chicks is an expression of
alarm calls that they make from time to time, while adults make a group of
sounds that vary depending on the situation they are going through. Both males
and females make alarm calls similar to the sound of slapping and whistling
when they sense danger, and a mixture of chirping and hissing during the hours
of dawn and dusk. Another of its sounds is a sound similar to the sound of a
stick falling on cement ground.
Brown
threshers are famous for their ability to imitate the sounds of other
creatures, as is the case with all types of birds belonging to the mockingbird
family, but in this area they are not superior to their relative, the northern
mockingbirds.
Males
show their best ability to imitate during the spawning season, imitating the
tweets of other species such as the hooded tit, northern cardinal, thrush,
northern hawk, and other birds.
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Behavior:
Threshers spend most of their time on the
ground, searching for food. They eat insects and worms as well as fruits and
seeds.
These birds have frequent loud singing.
They build cup-like nests, usually in short trees and shrubs. The bird lays two to six eggs.
Food:
The brown thresher is an omnivorous bird that
feeds on a wide range of foods, including: insects, geese, hazel fruits, and
seeds, in addition to earthworms, snails, and sometimes lizards and frogs.
During the spawning season, these birds eat beetles, grasshoppers, and other
arthropods, in addition to fruits, hazel fruits, and seeds. By late summer, it
begins to turn into a vegetarian diet, focusing its food on fruits, oak, seeds,
and grains.
In
winter, its main food consists of fruit and oak.
The brown thresher uses his sense of sight while
searching for food, so he seeks behind him, searching under the dry leaves of
trees, among the bushes, and the crumbs of the soil, using his beak. He then
rushes back and forth from side to side, checking out the area where he
recently studied. The bird beats some hazel fruits, such as oak, in order to
remove their outer shell.
It is also known for its flexibility in catching
fast insects, since the number of vertebrae in its neck exceeds the number of
vertebrae in long-necked mammals, such as the giraffe and camels.
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Reproduction:
An old photo of a brown thresher's nest
containing a few eggs.
Brown threshers are usually monogamous birds,
meaning that an individual is satisfied with one mate throughout his life, but
some of them change their mate on rare occasions, and during the same spawning
season, which varies depending on the region in which they live. In the
southeastern United States, the spawning season begins during the months of
February and March, while the months of May and the beginning of this season
are witnessed in the northern part of the habitat of these birds. Males control
their own territory ranging from 2 to ten acres during the beginning of the
season, and are at their most active.
They sing generously most of the time until they
attract a female, and the viewer sees her perched on the ends of the branches.
The two pets court each other in several ways, presenting the nest building
materials to each other, and the male’s singing turns into some soft song until
he finds a female.
This is what prompts the female to court him, so
she presents him with a stick or leaf, and chirps, flapping her wings.
It is
possible that the male will give another gift to the female after she
approaches him as evidence of his acceptance of her.
Both the male and female cooperate in building
the nest, and do not have intercourse until after it is completed.
The female lays between three and 5 blue or
green eggs that are mottled in a reddish-brown color, and in some pairs the
eggs are laid free of any spots at all. The nest is constructed of twigs and
lined with grasses, tree leaves, and other dry plants. The nest is often built
between dense thickets or in a low tree, on tops up to 2.1 meters (7 feet)
above the ground.
Some nests can also be found built at ground
level from time to time. The chicks hatch within a period of eleven days to two
weeks after they are laid, and both parents undertake the task of laying the
eggs and then feeding the chicks, but the greatest burden of molting falls on
the female. Chicks begin to feather (feather) about nine or thirteen days after
hatching. The pair can even produce two or three hatchlings per year. The male
crouches on a branch near his nest and tweets, declaring his control over the
territory.
He is very aggressive when it comes to defending
his pet and chicks, attacking everyone who comes very close to the nest,
whether animals or humans.
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Risks:
Although these birds are among the most widespread and common species, their numbers have declined in some areas due to the loss of their natural habitats, but this is not a real danger to the species as a whole, which could make the brown thresher a minimally endangered species.
Predators and parasites:
Brown thresher nests are rarely parasitized by brown-headed
blackbirds.
Most often, threshers realize that their nest
has been parasitized, so they throw the blackbird egg out, but some pairs also
throw their own eggs by mistake, due to the great similarity between them and
the blackbird egg. A single report indicated that a pair of threshers raised a
brown-headed blackbird chick until it reached its peak, so the possibility of
such other cases occurring in the wild is not remote. Northern cardinals and
gray howlers are the most competitive species for brown threshers for natural
habitats and habitats.
Students are often expelled from their habitat
by one of these species due to the apparent absence of their ability to inhabit
a specific type of habitat, or to feed on a specific type of food that is not
close to other birds. One of the reasons why the couple produces two or three
hatchlings during the year is that they often lose their first brood at the
hands of predators and competitors, as some species, such as gray howlers, have
been seen invading threshers’ nests and breaking their eggs. Adults are exposed
to predation by snakes, raptors, and domesticated and stray cats.
Brown threshers often defend themselves by
tapping, as their long, sharp beak can cause serious harm to smaller species.
They also hit the attacker with their wings and make
hostile
sounds that express their dissatisfaction.
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