#1315 · 🐦 birds

Eastern Towhee

🇳🇱 Roodflanktowie ·Pipilo erythrophthalmus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Terry Sohl · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Shari H · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Kristi · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Craig K. Hunt · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Stephen Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Stephen John Davies · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Steve Guttman NYC · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © JanetandPhil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The eastern towhee ( Pipilo erythrophthalmus ) is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the spotted towhee were considered a single species, the rufous-sided towhee .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 46,079iNaturalist 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.
46,079 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).