#spotted towhee

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Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

3/2/2023 Lane County, Oregon

Stanley Wood via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

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Spotted Towhee

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Spotted towhee

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Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

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Two Spotted Towhees

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I'm feeling ready to get back into Elden Ring, so I drew my favorite sword from the game.

Also, the first bird I ever identified was a spotted towhee, and it looked so ominous that I never forgot it.

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BOTD: Spotted Towhee

Photo: Becky Matsubara

"A widespread towhee of the West, sometimes abundant in chaparral and on brushy mountain slopes. For many years it was considered to belong to the same species as the unspotted Eastern Towhees found east of the Great Plains, under the name of Rufous-sided Towhee. The Spotted Towhee differs in the heavy white spotting on its upperparts, and its songs and callnotes are more variable and much harsher in tone. It often is first noticed because of the sound of its industrious scratching in the leaf-litter under dense thickets."

- Audubon Field Guide

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Wary spotted towhee keeping an eye on me

Fern Hell Wetlands, OR

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Spotted towhee, male . . . Magnuson Park, Seattle, Washington … 8/10/23

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Have you SPOTTED him in our shop?

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Spotted Towhee

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Spotted Towhee

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Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)

© Kellie Sagen 🦉