Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 30,010
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The eastern towhee, also known as chewink, joree, or joree bird, is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the spotted towhee were considered a single species, the rufous-sided towhee.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Eastern towhee”.