Green-tailed Towhee
Pipilo chlorurus
(L 7.25" WS 9.5" Wt 1 oz)
Summers in interior west U.S
...winters in Mexico
...winters in Mexico
Cataract Lake
CO
23Jun2012
Pipilo in Latin means chirp or
twitter; chlorurus in Greek
means green tail.
twitter; chlorurus in Greek
means green tail.
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Ornithology
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Society
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We don’t need too much birdlore, do we,
To tell a flamingo from a towhee;
Yet I cannot, and never will,
Unless the silly birds stand still.
(Ogden Nash)