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The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), also known as chewink, joree, or joree bird, [2] is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the spotted towhee were considered a single species, the rufous-sided towhee .
An eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) singing, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, United States Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear.
The genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the eastern towhee as the type species. [2] [3] The name Pipilo is Neo-Latin for "bunting" from pipilare "to chirp". [4] Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae, the genus Pipilo is sister to the larger genus Atlapetes. [5]
A towhee is any one of a number of species of birds in the genus Pipilo or Melozone within the family Passerellidae (which also includes American sparrows and juncos). Towhees typically have longer tails than other Passerellidae. Most species tend to avoid humans, so they are not well-known, though the eastern towhee P. erythrophthalmus is ...
Green-tailed towhee: Pipilo chlorurus (Audubon, 1839) 102 Spotted towhee: Pipilo maculatus Swainson, 1827: 103 Eastern towhee: Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) 104 Bermuda towhee: Pipilo naufragus Olson & Wingate, 2012: 105 Collared towhee: Pipilo ocai (Lawrence, 1865) 106 Rufous-capped brushfinch: Atlapetes pileatus Wagler, 1831: 107 ...
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They are seed-eating birds with conical bills, brown or gray in color, and many species have distinctive head patterns. Although they share the name sparrow , New World sparrows are more closely related to Old World buntings than they are to the Old World sparrows (family Passeridae).