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 through ...

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 ...

My husband, Joe, grew up with birds, birders and birding, and in his words, "I had some of the best teachers in the world. I met, and was in the field with, Roger Tory Peterson (author and illustrator ...

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 131, No. 3 (September 2019), pp. 625-628 (4 pages) We present observations of breeding behaviors exhibited by a bilateral gynandromorph Eastern Towhee (Pipilo ...

One of my favorite spring arrival birds, an eastern towhee, showed up in the back yard last week. I’m especially fond of this member of the sparrow family as its cheery song that sounds like “drink ...

NEWPORT — The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow that doesn’t look like a typical sparrow. With its ink-black hood and sepia sides, the male especially stands out in the landscape. But it’s getting harder to ...

It was bitterly cold, but bright and sunny. Yes, a perfect day for a quick bird walk. Perfect day for a long bird walk, too, but I had limited time, so it had to be a quick one. I pulled into Weed ...

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 ...

What bird means California to me? If pressed to give my sincere selection, I wouldn’t choose the elegant quail, the oak-planting scrub-jay, or the virtuosic green-backed goldfinch. I would choose the ...