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Updated: May 7, 2025

"Digging, delving, raking, sowing, Corn is sprouting, corn is growing! Plant it, plant it! Gather it, gather it! Thresh it, thresh it! Hide it, hide it, do! I'm that famous scratcher, H-a-r-p-o-r-h-y-n-c-h-u-s r-u-f-u-s Thrasher Cloaked in brown." The Brown Thrasher Length eleven inches. Above bright reddish-brown, with two light bands on each wing.

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