New World Sparrows
Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus
The spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) 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, the Rufous-sided Towhee. An archaic name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee (Pipilo maculatus oregonus).
- Family
- New World Sparrows
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 39 g
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 4
Photo: Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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