TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Male Eastern Towhee Male Eastern Towhee- Pipilo erythrophthalmus Male Eastern Towhee- Pipilo erythrophthalmus, Family EMBERIZIDAE. One of the largest sparrows. Diagnostics: Dark head and back (black in male, dark brown in female); white chest and belly, rufous sides and flanks. Male has black hood, back, wings and tail; female is dead-leaf brown where male is black. Winters in SW Ohio, migrates north during summer. We saw this bird on a sub-freezing morning in in the Shaker Trace Wetlands in the Miami Whitewater Forest area in SW Ohio. (Photo: March 13, 2004) More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Eastern_Towhee.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.