But the Bureau of Land Management, entrusted with protecting the California Desert Conservation Area, allowed destructive human activities in the towhee's California home even after the Conservation ...

A male spotted towhee has a black head, back and tail with a white belly, orange-red sides and multiple white wing marks. “I think that the first thing people notice is their sides,” David ...

Originally, the species California towhee (Pipilo crissalis), whose eight subspecies ... areas of dense riparian vegetation dominated by willows, Fremont cottonwood, and desert olive with associated ...