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Pipilo erythrophthalmus · Family Passerellidae

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Family Passerellidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Passerellidae
GBIF occurrence records
5,403,270
Countries and territories with records
10
Eastern Towhee
Bill Thompson of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region · Pipilo erythrophthalmus -Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts, USA -male-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Bill Thompson of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Re · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Pipilo_erythrophthalmus_-_Eastern_Towhee_XC133920.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 5,403,270 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (96.8%) and Canada (3.2%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.47% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pipilo erythrophthalmus combines the genus name Pipilo with the species epithet erythrophthalmus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Pipilo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pipilo maculatus, Pipilo chlorurus and Pipilo ocai.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Passerellidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Melospiza melodia. Its record count is 6.7 times the family average (810,852). The family Passerellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Passerellidae

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