#1393 · 🐦 birds

Canyon Towhee

🇳🇱 Bruine Towie ·Melozone fusca

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Gera Guzman · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Pablo Leautaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marv Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © cameralenswrangler · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gonzalo Zepeda Martínez · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Len Blumin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Gonzalo Zepeda Martínez · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The canyon towhee ( Melozone fusca ) is a bird of the family Emberizidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,019iNaturalist 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.
26,019 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1827 (199 years ago).