Abert's towhee [SEP] parent taxon
Abert's towhee
The Abert's towhee ("Melozone aberti") is a bird of the family Passerellidae, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, nearly endemic to Arizona, but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897).
Description.
Abert's towhees are recognized by their relatively long tails, dark
or adjacent in the range maps.
- Green-tailed towhee, "Pipilo chlorurus" ---(winter range)
- Spotted towhee, "Pipilo maculatus" ---(winter range)
- (SW) –Canyon towhee, "Pipilo fuscus", ---Central Ariz to "SE Ariz Biome")
- ( * SW) –Abert's towhee, "Pipilo aberti" ---(Arizona's SW&S-Lower Desert-""exclusive"")
- Rufous-winged sparrow, "Aimophila carpalis", ---(("SE Ariz Biome"))
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