#1289 · 🐦 birds

Spotted Towhee

🇳🇱 Gevlekte Towie ·Pipilo maculatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The spotted towhee ( Pipilo maculatus ) 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, the Rufous-sided Towhee . An archaic name for the spotted towhee is the Oregon towhee ( Pipilo maculatus oregonus ).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 80,910iNaturalist 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.
80,910 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1827 (199 years ago).