Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus)
About the Green-tailed Towhee
The green-tailed towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is found in the western United States and much of Mexico. The formal description of the green-tailed towhee is credited to Audubon, lthough the bird's description was written by John Townsend in a letter to him. Audubon gave this bird the binomial Fringilla chlorura and the English name "green-tailed sparrow". Because the species' wing shape and some other characteristics are somewhat distinctive, various authors placed it genera Oreospiza, Chlorura, or Oberholseria before it settled into its current Pipilo. The genus (Pipilo) of the green-tailed towhee is monotypic.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 269 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico, United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmusrecording
- Spotted TowheePipilo maculatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.