Distinctive markings: Male has a black head, back and tail with white belly, orange-red sides and red or white eyes. The female’s coloring has a browner cast. A flurry of flying leaves and bursts of ...

Originally, the species California towhee (Pipilo crissalis ), whose eight subspecies included the Inyo California towhee, was considered to be the same species as the canyon towhee (Pipilo fuscus) ...

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 ...

An unassuming bird that’s rebounded in California’s remote Inyo County is giving conservatives and environmentalists alike something to crow about. The Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation gets ...

DEAR JOAN: This will be the fourth spring during which I get a visit from a spotted towhee. I’ve already heard and seen him. I feel sure it is the same one. He mostly sits in a Japanese maple tree and ...

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 ...

Sparrows are difficult to identify with most of them appearing plain brownish to grayish. The green-tailed towhee adds some zip to its gray body with unique greenish-yellow highlights on the wings and ...

Lake Towhee is Bucks County’s disgrace. There must be a few people around who can recall when the county park was an attractive glen of woodlands surrounding a bucolic blue lake. Calling it Swamp ...

DEAR JOAN: This will be the fourth spring during which I get a visit from a spotted towhee. I’ve already heard and seen him. I feel sure it is the same one. He mostly sits in a Japanese maple tree and ...