Collared Towhee (Pipilo ocai)
About the Collared Towhee
The collared towhee (Pipilo ocai) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to Mexico. The collared towhee was formally described in 1865 with the binomial Buarremon ocai. It was eventually reassigned to its present Pipilo, a genus that had been erected in 1816. The collared towhee has these five subspecies: P. o. alticola (Salvin & Godman, 1889) P. o. nigrescens (Salvin & Godman, 1889) P. o. guerrerensis Van Rossem, 1938 P. o. brunnescens Van Rossem, 1938 P. o. ocai (Lawrence, 1865).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 56 recordings for this species: 30 CC BY-NC-ND · 26 CC BY-NC-SA. 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 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.