DEAR JOAN: There is a nest with two pale blue eggs and what I believe is a California towhee bird sitting on them. ‘Just bodies of animals everywhere’: Toxic algae bloom taking a toll on ...

DEAR JOAN: A California towhee has built a nest in our jasmine bush. She laid three eggs about one week ago. Now we look in the nest and there is a fourth egg and it sure looks like a cowbird egg.

NATURAL HISTORY. INYO CALIFORNIA TOWHEE } Pipilio crissalis eremophilus FAMILY: Emberizidae. Originally, the species California towhee (Pipilo crissalis), whose eight subspecies included the Inyo ...

A couple of weeks ago, two California towhees started frequenting the yard and began working on a nest about 10 feet above the ground in a bushy Razzle Dazzle tree.

Seeing a photo of a California towhee recently triggered a memory from last winter that still crops up unbidden. It’s highly doubtful that a brief experience with a small dying bird on my patio ...

The population of the Inyo California towhee, an omnivorous bird that mates for life, is now estimated to range from 640 to 741 adults. Nearly the entire habitat considered crucial to the towhee ...

DEAR JOAN: A California towhee has built a nest in our jasmine bush. She laid three eggs about one week ago. Now we look in the nest and there is a fourth egg and it sure looks like a cowbird egg.