Included in the Thrush-like Songbirds are shrikes, larks, bluebirds and thrushes, thrashers and mockingbirds, dipper, pipits, tanagers, meadowlarks, orioles.
Medium-sized land birds with generally plump bodies and most with long tails and thinner bills. The American Robin, Mockingbird, and Meadowlark are familiar representatives of this taxonomically diverse group that have a similar body shape.