Eastern Spotted Towhee

by Janette Boyd

Title

Eastern Spotted Towhee

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Photograph - Photo/texture/digital

Description

Photo of Eastern Spotted Towhee taken in my backyard last winter in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two original textures by FAA Artist, Jai Johnson, were merged on this image using Corel Paintshop's techniques of brushes and blending. The Eastern Spotted Towhee only comes to visit us in Oklahoma in the winter.
Textures Used:
DT-Illumination(21)
DT-WILDLIFMASTERPIECES(7)

Featured in the following FAA Groups
*A Birding Group - Wings
*Pleasing the Eye
*Photograph Manipulation
*Photography and Textures
*The Artistic Aperture
*Artistry Beyond the Camera

Eastern Spotted Towhee
Size & Shape
Towhees are a kind of large sparrow. Look for their thick, triangular, seed-cracking bill as a tip-off they're in the sparrow family. Also notice the chunky body and long, rounded tail.

Color Pattern
Males are striking: bold sooty black above and on the breast, with warm rufous sides and white on the belly. Females have the same pattern, but are rich brown where the males are black.

Behavior
Eastern Towhees spend most of their time on the ground, scratching at leaves using both feet at the same time, in a kind of backwards hop. They spend lots of time concealed beneath thick underbrush. You may see this bird more often when it climbs into shrubs and low trees to sing.

Habitat
Look for Eastern Towhees in brush, tangles, thickets, and along forest edges where there is plenty of leaf litter for the birds to forage in.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Towhee/id

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June 9th, 2016

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