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Canyon Towhee
Melozone fusca
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About the Canyon Towhee
The canyon towhee (Melozone fusca) is a bird of the family Passerellidae. Until 1989, the canyon towhee and the California towhee were considered to be a single species which was called the brown towhee.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Melozone fusca
- Family
- New World Sparrows
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the new world sparrows family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Abert's Towhee Melozone aberti
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Bachman's Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis
- Baird's Junco Junco bairdi
- Baird's Sparrow Centronyx bairdii
- Bell's Sparrow Artemisiospiza belli
- Black-chested Sparrow Peucaea humeralis
- Black-chinned Sparrow Spizella atrogularis
- Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
- Botteri's Sparrow Peucaea botterii
- Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri
- Bridled Sparrow Peucaea mystacalis
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