A chaffinch's song lasts about three seconds and is repeated; it starts with buzzing notes, slows, descends into a jumble, ...

Juvenile: brown above, with rufous edges and white spots on upperwing coverts. Tail long, with straight bands ... preying on small- to medium-size birds and small mammals, hunting from perches ...

The widespread thrasher of eastern North America, the brown thrasher is generally a secretive bird of dense thickets ... particularly the brown’s very long tail and its long and slender bill.