Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- Genus
- Pipilo