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Spotted Towhee
Pipiloe maculatus
Interesting and Fun Facts: Male Spotted Towhees spend their mornings, during the early breeding season, singing their love songs, trying to attract a mate. Male towhees have been recorded spending up to 90 percent of their mornings singing, but only until they find a mate. Then the singing becomes secondary to other interests.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizida
Genus: Pipiloe |
Audio for Species
Call
Song
from Macaulay Library |
Species Related Links
Additional Spotted Towhee Pictures
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Description
Length: 6.7-8.3 in (17-21 cm) Weight: 1.2-1.7 oz (33-49 g) Wingspan: 11 in (28 cm)
Male Spotted Towhees have black back, tail, head and throat. Where as the female is a brown-gray on these parts. Wings and back have beady white spots. The flanks are warm rufous and the belly and breast is white. They both have bright red eyes.
Subspecies: arcticus, oregonus, falcifer, megalonx, clementae, montanus, falcinellus, curtatus, gaigei.
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Habitat, Range, and Feeding
Their habitat is chaparral, forest edges, thickets or shrubby areas and canyon bottoms. Spotted Towhees hop over the ground beneath dense tangles of shrubs, scratching in leaf litter for food, and climb into lower branches to search for insects and fruits, also eating acorns, and a wide variety of seeds.
They nest either on the ground or low in bushes, seldom more than 5 feet (1.55 m) above the ground. Clutch size is 2-6 eggs; colored white, gray, green, or pinkish, spotted with reddish brown, purple or gray.
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