Green-tailed towhee Pipilo chlorurus

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6.25 inches
• Conical bill
• Dark eye
• Rusty cap
• White throat
• Plain olive upperparts
• Pale gray underparts
• Long tail
• Juvenile (Summer) heavily streaked below

Similar species:

The Green-tailed Towhee is similar to the Olive Sparrow but larger and has a rusty cap.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.