For the past few weeks, a brown thrasher has been singing around our home.  Today, when I stepped outside just when night was giving way to day I heard a brown thrasher loudly signing from the top of a leafless Chinese chestnut.  A few hours later when I went out to town the bird was still singing. Surprisingly, when I returned a couple of hours later, low and behold, it was still repeating the phrases of its song two, sometimes three times.

       To say the least, I was impressed with the bird’s vocal talent. Even though   this talented bird had been singing continuously from the first time I heard it until just before noon, is falls far short of how long these handsome birds can sing.

       Brown thrashers can literally sing for hours.  They can sing from before daylight throughout the day and well into the night.  Indeed, the bird can literally sing for hours.  Although it can seemingly sing all day long, the birds often pauses for short periods and then and then return to its vocal performance.

       The brown thrashers repertoire is far greater than that of the northern mockingbird.  Ornithologists have found the brown thrasher can sing 1,116 song types and as many as 1,971 songs. The experts say it is possible that further research will reveal the bird is capable of singing 3,000 different songs.

       If I were such a gifted songster, I would probably sing for hours too!