Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
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 Another outdated name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee.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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- Genus
- Pipilo