Canyon towhee

Canyon towhee
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Melozone
Species:
M. fusca
Binomial name
Melozone fusca
(Swainson, 1827)
Synonyms
  • Melozone fuscus
    *Pipilo fuscus
Canyon Towhee
Canyon towhee in Cochise County, Arizona

The canyon towhee (Melozone fusca) is a bird of the family Passerellidae. Until 1989, the canyon towhee and the California towhee were considered to be a single species which was called the brown towhee.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Melozone fusca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22721331A138530434. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22721331A138530434.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ American Ornithologists' Union (1989). "Thirty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds". Auk. 109: 532–538.