Photographs of a Spotted Towhee and the other birds on the Arizona desert and other parts of the state

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Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus

To learn more click here http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Spotted_Towhee.html

Use to be called Rufous-sided Towhee.

A ground feeding bird. Scratching through the under brush and leaves.
Very seldom comes out into the open except to feed on a man made feeder.
If you watch this bird closely you see it hope backwards scratch away the the surface
leafs and other surface things to get at what is under them. Feeds mostly on spiders, lizards, insects, & grass seed.

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