The Curve-billed Thrasher habitat is in the arid lands, where it survives among the sparse vegetation and its hot temperatures. Here they use spiny plants and cactus to house their nests.
They also may be found in dense growth in urban areas.
Its preferred habitats include dense aggregations of cholla cactus, mesquite, or palo verde.
It makes itself more conspicuous than the rest, dashing about in the open, calling a loud whit-wheet! Of the various thrashers in the southwestern deserts, the Curve-bill is the most familiar and most often seen.
The Texas and eastern bird has a lighter breast, more contrasting spots, pale wingbars, and white tail corners. 4 g. Largish, grey-brown long-tailed desert thrasher with long, moderately decurved bill. Curve-billed Thrasher: This species is a resident in southwestern U.S. to southern Mexico. It is remarkable to see this thrasher singing and perched on a cactus, impervious to its thorns and so well adapted to its environment. from the tops of mesquites. Curve-billed Thrashers dominate the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest.
This mostly light-grey coloured bird can easily be overlooked and not seen. It is found in Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Nominate race is l Habitat Curve-billed Thrashers in the eastern part of the range (curvirostre group) dwell in open country of many kinds, including brushlands, thorn scrub with mesquite, thickets bordering woodlands, pinyon-oak woods, and desert flats with prickly pear, yucca, and cholla cactus.
The Curve-billed Thrasher that lives in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northwestern Mexico looks different than the form that lives in the Chihuahuan Desert of Texas and central Mexico, and they may be separate species.