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Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Eastern Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, is a New World sparrow that breeds in southern Canada and the eastern United States, and moves as far as northern Mexico outside the breeding season. It is placed in the family Passerellidae and was described by Linnaeus in 1758. The bird was once treated together with the spotted towhee as the rufous-sided towhee. Its breeding range is linked with brushy country across eastern North America, where it nests low in bushes or on the ground beneath shrubs.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- North America: s Canada and c, e USA
- Nonbreeding range
- to n Mexico
