The Sunshine State has an eastern towhee race with white, not red, eyes. Towhees brighten a birding day. When you see one, be sure to check for those white spots.

A male spotted towhee has a black head, back and tail with a white belly ... Both males and females have red eyes. Meet the towhees: The birds scratching up a storm in your backyard. Look for these ...

The “spotted” of their name refers to the paint-splatter white across their wings, and they were once known as the “red-eyed towhee” in acknowledgment of their demonically glowing red eyes.

The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus, or “red-eyed chipper”) is found in much of the eastern United States. The species belongs to the New World sparrow family, a group native to the Americas ...

Other names for this common Lehigh Valley woodland songbird include bush-bird, chewink, red-eyed towhee, swamp robin and turkey sparrow, the latter nickname probably resulting from the earth ...

Put them all together and we learn that the eastern towhee is also known as the “red-eyed chirper.” Simple, right? Well, in the world of ornithology, things never seem to stay simple for long.

There are a few other clues you can use to identify an Eastern towhee, but before I get into that I’d like to sneak in a bit of early American history. The towhee was one of the first birds ...

After lying dormant for 17 years, a plague of sex-crazed Brood XIV cicadas will be emerging from their subterranean sleep pods extra hungry for love thanks to the spread of a zombie fungus.

These red-eyed, screaming insects will invade South Carolina soon for the first time in 13 years. Here’s what to know.

From the eastern towhee to the red-breasted nuthatch, we identify birds that look like robins to point out the differences ...

In 1934, in Peterson's first field guide, the bird is called the red-eyed towhee. In 1939, in "A Natural History of American Birds" by Forbush and May, it is also known as the red-eyed towhee. All ...