Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as...

When you bird in Latin America, you quickly realize how America-centric English-language bird names are. Consider, for example, the Summer Tanager. This is an...

One of the things that I have always considered a positive about living on a sailboat, besides the obvious, is the complete lack of...

The Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) is probably the most common of the five western Towhees of North America. They occupy the scrubby thickets of the northern...