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 ...

Fire-red eyes burn in the dark. For a long time, you see nothing at all, your attention drawn only by a loud and suggestive rustling. But, you peer deeper into the tangled undergrowth, until an ind… ...

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 ...

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 ...

The incubation time for the California towhee is 11 to 14 days, and the nesting period is 6 to 11 days. So at the time you wrote the letter, you were still within the average time frame.

The rufous-sided towhee, with its striking plumage, is a somewhat secretive member of the finch family that flits from beneath vegetation to visit feeders or scratch around in garden litter ...

Though it doesn't boast fancy plumage, the grayish-brown, sparrow-like Inyo California towhee is remarkable for its tenacity. Despite the population's limited range and complete isolation from other ...

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 ...