A photo of a Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus), male
Spotted Towhee, Male

Spotted Towhee

Pipilo maculatus

The spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been debated in recent decades, and until 1995 this bird and the eastern towhee were considered a single species, the rufous-sided towhee. Another outdated name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee (Pipilo maculatus oregonus). The call may be harsher and more varied than for the eastern towhee. Individuals in the Socorro Island population are much smaller than other spotted towhees, and show distinctive gray upper-parts. That population is sometimes treated as a subspecies: the Socorro towhee (Pipilo socorroensis).
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Sightings

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Lacey C
Tuesday 21 Mar 2023 - 8:50pm
United States
A photo of a Spotted Towhee photographed in  United States
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Marie Hadley
Sunday 19 Mar 2023 - 12:03am
United States
A map showing the sighting location
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Paul Pedersen
Saturday 18 Mar 2023 - 7:34pm
United States
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Jean Ensminger
Saturday 18 Mar 2023 - 5:39pm
Canada
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