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Spotted Towhee

Pipilo maculatus

Photo by tbrett
Published on Project Noah
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48.1152, -122.757

Field Notes

Description:

Brightly colored and vocal with a definitive trilling call. White spots on black wings with beautiful russet sides and white breast. Distinctive amber orange eyes often in tops of bushes loudly calling to others this is my bush.

Habitat:

heavy brush and meadow edges loves blackberry bushes

Reference Links:

Spotted Towhee Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Species ID Suggestions

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Võ Anh Tuấn
https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=0B0BC750365D5F26

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Birds of the Pacific North West
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PublishedMay 30, 2021

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