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1.23 (0.611 - 1.84)|
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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
This attractive but somewhat secretive large sparrow is a visual delight from May through early July, when territorial males sing from atop small trees and ravine-edge bushes. Its breeding range extends west to southern British Columbia, south to Baja California and Guatemala, and east to the Dakotas, central Nebraska, and western Texas. During the winter most withdraw from the northern Great Plains portion of its range.
"Brushy coulees, riparian thickets and other dense shrubbery are its preferred habitat? (Smith 1996). Where Spotted and Eastern Towhees occur together in the eastern Qu'Appelle Valley, the Spotted appears to favour drier, brushy, south-facing slopes while the Eastern prefers moist, wooded, and more shaded north-facing slopes (Koes in Taylor et al. 2003).
The Spotted Towhee is a locally common summer resident of the parklands, grasslands, and southern fringe of the boreal forest (Smith 1996). The eastern limits of the Spotted Towhee in the province are still poorly known. It reaches Manitoba as a rare possible breeder only in the extreme southwest (Koes in Taylor et al. 2003). Does hybridize with Eastern Towhee in areas of overlap.
Original text by Calvin Cuthbert. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Spotted Towhee in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Spotted Towhee in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=SPTO&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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