Green-tailed Towhee Images and Information:
Pipilo chlorurus
- Green-tailed Towhees have rufous crowns, white throat markings, dark mustache stripes and greenish backs, wings and tails, gray body plumage and are larger than most sparrows.
- Green-tailed Towhees are migratory and during the breeding season are found mostly in the western U.S. and during the winter in the southern most parts of the U.S. and in Mexico.
- Green-tailed Towhees prefer shrubby habitat, sagebrush steppes, open pinyon-juniper forests, dry washes, desert grasslands, arroyos, and mountain canyons up to 10,000 feet in elevation.
- Green-tailed Towhees eat small insects, berries and seeds.
- Green-tailed Towhees lay 2 to 5 eggs which hatch in 11 to 13 days. The female incubates and they are monogamous.
- A group of towhees can be called a “tangle” or “teapot” of towhees.
- Green-tailed Towhees can live to be more than 7 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Green-tailed Towhee photos.
Green-tailed Towhee on a jackleg fence
Title: Green-tailed Towhee on a jackleg fence
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/30/2022
Young Green-tailed Towhee on a old weathered stump
Title: Young Green-tailed Towhee on a old weathered stump
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2022
Young Green-tailed Towhee on an old stump
Title: Young Green-tailed Towhee on an old stump
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2022
Damp young Green-tailed Towhee
Title: Damp young Green-tailed Towhee
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2022
Young Green-tailed Towhee posing in a serviceberry
Title: Young Green-tailed Towhee posing in a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2022
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Young Green-tailed Towhee in low light
Title: Young Green-tailed Towhee in low light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Juvenile Green-tailed and Spotted Towhee comparison
Title: Juvenile Green-tailed and Spotted Towhee comparison
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Green-tailed Towhee peeking out of sage
Title: Green-tailed Towhee peeking out of sage
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2022
Treetop Green-tailed Towhee singing
Title: Treetop Green-tailed Towhee singing
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2022
Adult Green-tailed Towhee peeking out of a willow
Title: Adult Green-tailed Towhee peeking out of a willow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/11/2021
Worn adult Green-tailed Towhee in a willow
Title: Worn adult Green-tailed Towhee in a willow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/11/2021
Green-tailed Towhee perched on a rusty metal pipe
Title: Green-tailed Towhee perched on a rusty metal pipe
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Green-tailed Towhee in a serviceberry close up
Title: Green-tailed Towhee in a serviceberry close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Adult Green-tailed Towhee high in the mountains
Title: Adult Green-tailed Towhee high in the mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2021
Immature Green-tailed Towhee in molt
Title: Immature Green-tailed Towhee in molt
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2020
Molting immature Green-tailed Towhee on a willow branch
Title: Molting immature Green-tailed Towhee on a willow branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2020
Young Green-tailed Towhee perched on the bare branches of a serviceberry
Title: Young Green-tailed Towhee perched on the bare branches of a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/16/2020
Adult and immature Green-tailed Towhees in a serviceberry
Title: Adult and immature Green-tailed Towhees in a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/16/2020
Green-tailed Towhee adult foraging in a serviceberry bush
Title: Green-tailed Towhee adult foraging in a serviceberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/16/2020
Side view of a juvenile Green-tailed Towhee
Title: Side view of a juvenile Green-tailed Towhee
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/29/2020