Rufous Sided Towhee

by Deena Stoddard

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Rufous Sided Towhee

Artist

Deena Stoddard

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Photograph - Digital Art

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A strikingly marked, oversized sparrow of the East, feathered in bold black and warm reddish-browns if you can get a clear look at it. Eastern Towhees are birds of the undergrowth, where their rummaging makes far more noise than you would expect for their size. Their "chew-ink" or "tow-hee" calls let you know how common they are, but many of your sightings end up mere glimpses through tangles of little stems. Males are striking: bold sooty black above and on the breast, with warm rufous sides and white on the belly. Females have the same pattern, but are rich brown where the males are black. Towhees spend most of their time on the ground, scratching at leaves using both feet at the same time, in a kind of backwards hop. They spend lots of time concealed beneath thick underbrush. You may see this bird more often when it climbs into shrubs and low trees to sing. Towhees are likely to visit or perhaps live in your yard if you've got brushy, shrubby, or overgrown borders. If your feeders are near a vegetated edge, towhees may venture out to eat fallen seed.



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August 31st, 2013

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