Birds of the Table Rocks

California Towhee

California Towhee

Pipilo crissalis

Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles
© 2001 California Academy of Sciences

California Towhee

Pipilo crissalis

Dr. Antonio J. Ferreira
© 2001 California Academy of Sciences

I am a robin sized bird all gray-brown above and below, with buff or rust-colored under my tail.

I live in the Chaparral plant community on the Table Rocks. When you hear a sharp chink and thin tseeee coming from a bush, you have found me.

I lay three or four bluish-green eggs, lightly spotted or scrawled with blackish-brown markings, in a cup nest placed low in a bush or young tree.

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