towhee
- n any of numerous long-tailed American finches
- Daniels and Baird once saw the only spurred towhee ever identified on the East Coast.
- The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines of a single body to animate roadsides and backyards across .
- We have had a cedar waxwing and a California towhee beat against our windows in this way, and in each case stopped it promptly by placing a piece of cardboard over the part of .