Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)

Look at those bright yellow eyes! This Brown Thrasher was perched high up in a Central Park treetop, watching a Red-Tailed Hawk consume a Northern Flicker. Although this bird was cautiously watching an apex predator, please don't think that the Brown Thrasher is a timid bird. Brown Thrashers are known to attack anyone they deem a threat -- even Humans (Homo sapiens)!

I could identify the Brown Thrasher by his rufous upper parts, two white wingbars, long tail, and extraordinary streaking on the breast.