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WonsingtonWonsington@gram.social
2025-02-19
FEATHRUARY 2025

Prompt 12: Busy
-> Spotted Towhee

Meet the spotted towhee, a really cool birb! It is a New World Sparrow whose taxonomy has been debated quite recently. It was only in 1995 that the spotted towhee and the eastern towhee were considered two separate species.

They are about the size of robins and has characteristic white spots on its rufous sides - which the eastern towhee does not have by the way.

These birbs lay at least (!) two broods, consisting of three to five eggs, per season. Once their fledglings have hatched, males will forage noisly and busily to feed them, while females stay in the nest to protect the family. After just 10 to 12 days, the young birbs leave the nest to go on their merry way.

FUN FACT
These birbs live in regions often affected by forest fires (not fun) and thrive in areas recovering from forest fires due to their excellent ground foraging abilities. They are also found on Socorro Island, a volcanic island near Mexico; the specimen living there tend to be much smaller than other spotted towhees, hence they are sometimes treated as their own species, the Socorro Towhee.

#feathruary #feathruary2025 #bird #birds #birb #birbs #birdart #digitalart #drawing #towhee #towhees #spottedtowhee
A spotted towhee, a bird with red eyes, a black head, dark-grey back with white spots, rufous sides and white belly, in front of a volcano island, cartoon style.
Bruno Philipebrunoph@breakpoint.cafe
2024-12-02

Nom!

#SpottedTowhee #towhees #birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

a spotted towhee is seen, out of focus, perched on a fine fruit tree branch, staring at the little fruits, which are in focusthe towhee reaches in for one of the little fruits with its agape beak
George Scherergscherer2@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-03

California Towhee. Los Angeles Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. March, 2024. #laarboretum #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #towhee #californiatowhee #towhees #omds_om_photo #om1 #mzuiko40150pro #mzuikomc20

California Towhee, with light brown and white feathers, facing the camera, with head turned to the left, looking into the camera with its left eye. The bird is standing on out of focus brown leaf litter. A single blade of grass crosses in front of the bird's chest.Side view of a California Towhee, with light brown and white feathers, facing to the left. The bird is standing on out of focus brown leaf litter.
George Scherergscherer2@pixelfed.social
2024-10-03
California Towhee. Los Angeles Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. March, 2024. #laarboretum #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #towhee #californiatowhee #towhees #omds_om_photo #om1 #mzuiko40150pro #mzuikomc20
Side view of a California Towhee, with light brown and white feathers, facing to the left. The bird is standing on out of focus brown leaf litter.California Towhee, with light brown and white feathers, facing the camera, with head turned to the left, looking into the camera with its left eye. The bird is standing on out of focus brown leaf litter. A single blade of grass crosses in front of the bird's chest.
Bruno Philipebrunoph@breakpoint.cafe
2024-07-07

Part two.

#towhees #warblers #robins #birds #BirdsOfMastodon

a spotted towhee perched on a tall branch, looking quizzically at the camera, contorting its neck to look around the cedar branch it is ona Wilson's warbler, which is a yellow passerine with a black cap, perched in the green leafs of a fernan American robin perched on a little branch that juts out of a much thicker tree trunk. the sun is shining on it, making it look even prettiera different American robin foraging the forest ground for nesting material, with its beak absolutely full of dried plant material and fluff

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