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California Towhee
Melozone crissalis · Family Passerellidae
Melozone crissalis
Family Passerellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,997,663
- Countries and territories with records
- 4
About this species
This species has 1,997,663 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). The United States accounts for 99.2% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.18% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Melozone crissalis combines the genus name Melozone with the species epithet crissalis. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Melozone; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Melozone aberti, Melozone fusca and Melozone leucotis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Passerellidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Melospiza melodia. Its record count is 2.5 times the family average (810,852). The family Passerellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.