Green-tailed Towhee
Pipilo chlorurus(Audubon, JJ, 1839)
English (US) Green-tailed Towhee
The Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Passerellidae (New World Sparrows) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds highlands of western USA; winters to central MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pipilo chlorurus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fringilla chlorura
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1839)
- Type locality
- no locality [= Ross' Creek, ca. 20 miles southwest Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho, fide Deignan, 1961, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 221, p. 631].
- Original description
- Ornithological Biography (etc.) 5 p.336
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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