#1301 · 🐦 birds

California Towhee

🇳🇱 Californische Towie ·Melozone crissalis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Lucina M · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Phil Warren · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © gregslak · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mary Fenwick · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Steven Kurniawidjaja · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Paul Donahue · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Michael · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © jenloren · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The California towhee ( Melozone crissalis ) is a bird of the family Passerellidae, native to the coastal regions of western Oregon and California in the United States and Baja California Sur in Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 62,458iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
62,458 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1839 (187 years ago).