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 ...

Eastern Towhees were a favorite bird of Joe's mom. She would accompany the birding groups on their bird watching hikes until she heard the Towhee sing a song that sounded much like, "Drink, drink ...

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 131, No. 3 (September 2019), pp. 625-628 (4 pages) We present observations of breeding behaviors exhibited by a bilateral gynandromorph Eastern Towhee (Pipilo ...

The Eastern Towhee is one of them. The species was found throughout Rhode Island during research for the new bird atlas, but its numbers across New England have been dropping by more than 4% a ...

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 ...

The Eastern towhee is one of my favorite yard birds, but not just because of its dramatic appearance. These birds also have some instantly recognizable vocalizations.

The Eastern Towhee’s coloration is quite striking—at first sight you might look at one and think it was some kind of strange American robin, thanks to the orange patch on its side, but the ...

That odd word “towhee” is in fact a misnomer: it derives from a call given by an entirely different bird, the eastern towhee, a two-parted, rising squeak that our bird simply doesn’t make.

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

I’d lived in Atlanta most of my life, but realized I hadn’t really paid attention its flying fauna. Atlanta Bird of the Day #96: Eastern Towhee Atlanta Bird of the Day #75: Cedar Waxwing ...