Green-tailed Towhee
Relatives in same Genus
Abert's Towhee (P. aberti)
Canyon Towhee (P. fuscus)
Spotted Towhee (P. maculatus) ...
The Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) breeds across much of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and winters in the desert southwest and Mexico.
Green-tailed Towhees are of casual occurrence in Alberta, with less than one record per year over the last ten years. They breed in the western United States from Oregon and southern Montana south to California and New Mexico.
The Green-tailed Towhee is a bird of mountains of the West in summer, where they are often first noticed when strange catlike mewing is heard from dense shrubbery.
The Green-tailed Towhee is similar to the Olive Sparrow but larger and has a rusty cap.
Subfamily Emberizinae
Green-tailed Towhee
Pipilo chlorurus (Audubon) ...
Green-tailed Towhee, Pipilo chlorurus
Collared Towhee, Pipilo ocai
"Rufous-sided Towhee"--old name, now split into two species:
Eastern Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus ...
Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus. Accidental.
Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Breeder. Common in all seasons and regions. Found in brushy woodlands and early successional growth. Low Conservation Concern.
The Green-tailed Towhee is the smallest of the towhees.
The emberizids are a large family of passerine birds. They are seed-eating birds with a distinctively shaped bill. In Europe, most species are named as buntings.
Double-scratch foraging and mouselike run of female as in Green-tailed Towhee. Female broods nestlings; male then does most of feeding. Female occ feigns injury to distract predator from nest. Female may sing in early spring.
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus)
Harris's Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula)
Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus)
Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)
Le Conte's Sparrow (Ammodramus leconteii) ...
(P. villosus), northern flickers, western wood-pewees (Contopus sordidulus), Steller's jays, house wrens (Troglodytes aedon), western bluebirds (Sialia mexicana), American robins, western tanagers (Piranga ludoviciana), green-tailed towhees (P.
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The green-tailed towhee is a western mountain bird. The various species of towhees all belong to the genus Pipilo. Towhees are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Fringillidae.
 See also: Towhee, Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Grasshopper, Junco
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