Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 56,987
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The spotted towhee is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been debated in recent decades, and until 1995 this bird and the eastern towhee were considered a single species, then named rufous-sided towhee. Another outdated name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee. The call may be harsher and more varied than for the eastern towhee.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Spotted towhee”.