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 Wiedenfeld, ...

First discovered: The first scientific description of the Eastern towhee was written by the famed naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Family matters: Eastern towhees belong to the Emberizidae family ...

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 ...

Bird sightings. Notable reports in July from the Woodland Park yard area. Eurasian collared-dove- a few sightings, singing; Rufous hummingbird- first “fall” local report on July 4, one on July 31 ...