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 ...

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

First discovered: The first scientific description of the Eastern towhee was written by the famed naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Family matters: Eastern towhees belong to the Emberizidae family ...

A male Eastern towhee adopts a high perch in his territory. All this parental care, though, is sometimes extended to the offspring of another species — the brown-headed cowbird, a type of blackbird.

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 ...

That odd word “towhee” is in fact a misnomer: it derives from a call given by an entirely different bird, the eastern towhee, a two-parted, rising squeak that our bird simply doesn’t make.

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 ...

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 ...