On February 20, 2025, with my son Sam, up Arch Canyon in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, I saw my first canyon towhee.
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| Warm reddish brown crown and undertail. |
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| It often has a dark spot in the center of the breast. |
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| Illustration from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. There are ten subspecies. Ssp. mesoleucus is the most widely distributed U.S. ssp. - found throughout central and southern Arizona lowlands, except the lower Colorado River valley, the Grand Canyon, the lowlands of New Mexico and extreme western Texas, south into Mexico to northern Sonora and northern Chihuahua. |
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