Brown Thrasher Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Brown Thrashers wear a somewhat severe expression thanks to their heavy, slightly downcurved bill and staring yellow eyes, and they are the only thrasher species. ![]() It was from the article I read, and the reporter was there in Gaza reporting real details, which is what this and most of my other songs about real events are based on, unless I’m writing about something I actually witnessed first-hand. Brown Thrashers are exuberant singers, with one of the largest repertoires of any North American songbird. Incidentally, the detail about the stove is real, it’s not something I just randomly threw in there. ![]() Songbirds can be sold at the market, and owning them is popular, so catching songbirds is a thing. Mahmud was only one of many children killed for the same reasons, in the same circumstances. flashbackfriday Shout Sister Shout, (a Boswell Sisters classic) was the first song. I wrote this song after reading about the death of Mahmud Al-Qayyed, age 10, in Gaza, for the “crime” of catching songbirds too close to the militarized fence that separates Gaza from Israel. UPDATE: The SongBirds debut album Dreamers Dream On is OUT NOW. “Song the Songbird Sings” originally appeared on Songs for Mahmud (CD, 2004) and later on Falasteen, Habibti (CD and Bandcamp album, 2014).
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