Eastern Towhee Nest and Eggs. Once males draw in a female, they flirt with a quieter song and quickly fan out their tails. The female later creates a cup-like nest around eye level.

From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the ...

The Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) is an infrequent visitor to backyard bird feeders. Consider yourself lucky to see this large sparrow, with distinctive plumage, feeding on the ground ...

The Eastern towhee is a sparrow, but it definitely isn’t an LBJ. It is colorful, distinctive and shouldn’t be confused with any other bird, except maybe an oriole, but only if you’re from ...

An eastern towhee is back on my property. I didn’t see it, but heard its distinctive song, “drink your tea.” Before we talk about this bird’s behavior, let’s discuss its family, the Emberizids.

The eastern towhee is known by several other names — red-eyed towhee, spurred towhee, ground robin, turkey sparrow, marsh robin, joree, bush bird, Virginia bullfinch, and, in Florida, the white ...

Usually you’ll hear an Eastern Towhee before you see it. This common, colorful bird spends much of its time rustling around in the undergrowth, foraging noisily through leaf litter or creeping ...

Usually you’ll hear an Eastern Towhee before you see it. This common, colorful bird spends much of its time rustling around in the undergrowth, foraging noisily through leaf litter or creeping ...

Eastern Towhees were a favorite bird of Joe's mom. She would accompany the birding groups on their bird watching hikes until she heard the Towhee sing a song that sounded much like, "Drink, drink ...

And 112 species - including bobolink, chimney swift, eastern towhee, greater prairie chicken and whooping crane - are classified as "tipping point" species and considered of high or moderate ...

The Eastern Towhee is one of them. The species was found throughout Rhode Island during research for the new bird atlas, but its numbers across New England have been dropping by more than 4% a ...