Pipilo

Pipilo
	Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passerellidae
Genus:	Pipilo; Vieillot, 1816
Type species
	Fringilla erythrophthalma; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	4, see text

Pipilo is a genus of birds in the American sparrow family

Passerellidae. It is one of two genera containing birds with the common name towhee

.

Taxonomy

The genus Pipilo was introduced by the French ornithologist

sister to the larger genus Atlapetes.^[5]

Species

The genus contains five species:[6]

Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
Pipilo chlorurus	Green-tailed towhee	interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States
Pipilo ocai	Collared towhee	Mexico
Pipilo erythrophthalmus	Eastern towhee	eastern North America
Pipilo maculatus	Spotted towhee	across western North America
Pipilo naufragus	Bermuda towhee	Bermuda; extinct

References

^ "Passerellidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 168.
^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
doi:10.1642/AUK-16-26.1
.

Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers"
. IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

External links

Media related to Pipilo at Wikimedia Commons

Data related to Pipilo at Wikispecies

Towhee videos, photos and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

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[HM4-1] "Passerellidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.

[2] Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32.

[3] Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 168.

[hbwkey-4] Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

[bryson-5] doi:10.1642/AUK-16-26.1
.

[ioc-6] Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers"
. IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

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