Spotted towhee

Pipilo maculatus · Passerellidae

The spotted towhee 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, then named rufous-sided towhee. Another outdated name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee.

Where the Spotted towhee lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Texas.

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Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 4,820,554 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.