How to Attract an Eastern Towhee Eastern towhees can be tempted into urban or rural backyards by embracing thick vegetation. Plant large shrubs and, if you’re fortunate to have woods near your ...

From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the ...

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 ...

Usually you’ll hear an Eastern Towhee before you see it. This common, colorful bird spends much of its time rustling around in the undergrowth, foraging noisily through leaf litter or creeping ...

The Eastern towhee is a sparrow, but it definitely isn’t an LBJ. It is colorful, distinctive and shouldn’t be confused with any other bird, except maybe an oriole, but only if you’re from ...

Often missed by birders, particularly those of us who hear poorly, is one of our most attractive species — the eastern towhee. Until 1995, it was called the rufous-sided towhee, a very ...

Usually you’ll hear an Eastern Towhee before you see it. This common, colorful bird spends much of its time rustling around in the undergrowth, foraging noisily through leaf litter or creeping ...

The eastern towhee version is popularly rendered as “drink-your-TEA,” with the last word a ringing and explosive trill. Here on the West Coast, it’s generally been squeezed, ...

An eastern towhee is back on my property. I didn’t see it, but heard its distinctive song, “drink your tea.” Before we talk about this bird’s behavior, let’s discuss its family, the Emberizids.

The Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) is an infrequent visitor to backyard bird feeders. Consider yourself lucky to see this large sparrow, with distinctive plumage, feeding on the ground ...