Sage Thrasher
Oreoscoptes montanus
The Sage Thrasher was once called the Mountain Mockingbird. These birds are found mostly in shrub-dominated habitats of the western United States. In Spring and Summer the Great Basin is a good place to find these birds. Thrashers earned their name by their foraging technique; they use their beaks to dig through soft soils under leaf litter to find their invertebrate prey.
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Culp Valley. Between Ranchita and Borrego Springs. San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2012:03:30 8:45 |
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Location:
Culp Valley |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1600 |
File Name: D3X9276-SageThrasher |
| © 2012 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: I made this cut-out composite from two birds I met in the Great Basin. Wings-up was caught in 2016 near Mono Lake and its friend was caught nearer the borders of California, Oregon and Nevada in 2015. |
Date Taken: 2016:07:09 15:16 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: |
File Name: Cut_D3X8292-D72-1729-SageThrasher |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: (Oreoscoptes montanus) Perched on sage having just brought food for its nestlings. Upper Owens River Valley, near Crowley Lake, Mono County, California USA 2011-05-29. |
Date Taken: 2011:05:29 10:12 |
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Location:
Whitmore Hot Springs |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 |
File Name: JCD8555-SageThrasher |
| © 2011 - Jack Daynes - shadeTree Imaging |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Perched on sage with food for nestlings. Upper Owens River Valley, near Crowley Lake, Mono County, California. |
Date Taken: 2011:05:29 10:11 |
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Location:
Whitmore Hot Springs |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: JCD8511-SageThrasher |
| © 2011 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Perched on sage with food for nestlings. Upper Owens River Valley, near Crowley Lake, Mono County, California USA 2011-05-29. |
Date Taken: 2011:05:29 10:08 |
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Location:
Whitmore Hot Springs |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: JCD8495-SageThrasher |
| © 2011 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Culp Valley. Between Ranchita and Borrego Springs. San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2012:03:30 8:47 |
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Location:
Culp Valley |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X9284-SageThrasher |
| © 2012 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Antelope Island State Park, north of Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Date Taken: 2015:05:10 16:12 |
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Location:
Antelope Island |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X0833-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Good Sagebrush Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Brewer's Sparrow habitat. Along Highway 140 that travels between Denio Nevada, through northern Nevada to Adel Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2015:06:04 11:59 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D3X8343-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Good Sagebrush Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Brewer's Sparrow habitat. Along Highway 140 that travels between Denio Nevada, through northern Nevada to Adel Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2015:06:04 11:49 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X8304-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Good Sagebrush Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Brewer's Sparrow habitat. Along Highway 140 that travels between Denio Nevada, through northern Nevada to Adel Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2015:06:04 11:48 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1600 |
File Name: D3X8292-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Good Sagebrush Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Brewer's Sparrow habitat. Along Highway 140 that travels between Denio Nevada, through northern Nevada to Adel Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2015:06:04 11:48 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X8285-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Good Sagebrush Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Brewer's Sparrow habitat. Along Highway 140 that travels between Denio Nevada, through northern Nevada to Adel Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2015:06:04 11:47 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X8281-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: I met this juvenile bird west of Highway 395, north of June Lake Junction. Mono County, California USA 2014-08-08. |
Date Taken: 2014:08:08 11:28 |
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Location:
June Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X7396-SageThrasher |
| © 2014 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Antelope Island State Park, north of Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Date Taken: 2015:05:11 7:54 |
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Location:
Antelope Island |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/250 |
File Name: D3X1287-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Antelope Island State Park, north of Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Date Taken: 2015:05:11 7:51 |
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Location:
Antelope Island |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2500 |
File Name: D3X1280-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Antelope Island State Park, north of Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Date Taken: 2015:05:10 16:17 |
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Location:
Antelope Island |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/3200 |
File Name: D3X0868-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Seen on my first visit to Antelope Island State Park, north of Salt Lake City, Utah USA 2015-05-10. |
Date Taken: 2015:05:10 16:12 |
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Location:
Antelope Island |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X0841-SageThrasher |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: On the road to South Tufa near Lee Vining California. |
Date Taken: 2016:05:08 12:49 |
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Location:
Lee Vining |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1600 |
File Name: D72-1732-SageThrasher |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Perched on Sage. Upper Owens River Valley, California. |
Date Taken: 2005:05:18 7:12 |
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Location:
Benton Crossing |
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Camera Information: NIKON D2X, 550 mm, f/16.0, 1/250 |
File Name: JCD1490SageThrasher |
| © 2005 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: I made this cut-out composite from two birds I met in the Great Basin. Wings-up was caught in 2016 near Mono Lake and its friend was caught nearer the borders of California, Oregon and Nevada in 2015. |
Date Taken: 2016:07:09 15:16 |
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Location:
Highway 140 |
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Camera Information: |
File Name: Cut_D3X8292-D72-1729-SageThrasher |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: I met this juvenile bird west of Highway 395, north of June Lake Junction. Mono County, California USA 2014-08-08. |
Date Taken: 2014:08:08 11:28 |
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Location:
June Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: Sketch_D3X7396-SageThrasher |
| © 2014 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Singing joyfully at the dawn's early light at my camp beside Lake Crowley. |
Date Taken: 2016:04:22 7:57 |
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Location:
North Landing |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728169-SageThrasher |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: On the road to South Tufa near Lee Vining California. |
Date Taken: 2016:05:08 12:49 |
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Location:
Mono Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D72-1726-SageThrasher |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: And we have lift-off. Malheur NWR is in southeastern Oregon, west of Steens Mountains and south of Burns Oregon. Harney County. |
Date Taken: 2017:08:30 8:42 |
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Location:
Center Patrol Road |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/10.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: SageThrasher_D5X8853-MalheurNWR |
| © 2017 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Posing nicely. Malheur NWR is in southeastern Oregon, west of Steens Mountains and south of Burns Oregon. Harney County. |
Date Taken: 2017:08:30 8:42 |
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Location:
Center Patrol Road |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/10.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: SageThrasher_D5X8849-MalheurNWR |
| © 2017 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Malheur NWR is in southeastern Oregon, west of Steens Mountains and south of Burns Oregon. Harney County. |
Date Taken: 2017:08:30 8:41 |
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Location:
Malheur NWR |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/10.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: SageThrasher_D5X8829-MalheurNWR |
| © 2017 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: At the South Tufa shores of Mono Lake. Mono County, California. |
Date Taken: 2014:08:08 14:35 |
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Location:
Mono Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X7650-SageThrasher |
| © 2014 Jack Daynes, shadeTree-Imaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Along the Great Southern Overland Stage Route, at Agua Caliente County Park. San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:03:26 9:21 |
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Location:
Vallecito Valley |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 |
File Name: D3X2763-SageThrasher |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Sage Thrasher(Oreoscoptes montanus) |
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Description: Culp Valley. Between Ranchita and Borrego Springs. San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2012:03:30 8:44 |
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Location:
Culp Valley |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X9271-SageThrasher |
| © 2012 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
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