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GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE May 2, 2010 Elliot and Cooper Roads.JPG.jpg
FIRST SEEN: 1. Green-tailed Towhee 4/17/1971 at Headlight Pond
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Green-tailed Towhee Dec16, 2023 Water Ranch.jpg
LAST SEEN WHEN THIS PAGE WAS MADE: 65. Green-tailed Towhee 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Good bird
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4/17/1971 Headlight Pond 2. Green-tailed Towhee 5/8/1972 Flagstaff Area Old Main 3. Green-tailed Towhee 5/17/1972 Flagstaff Area 4. Green-tailed Towhee 3/3/1986 Arizona State University The date here is a guess. I found one dead once too. 5. Green-tailed Towhee 4/5/1998 Superstitions 6. Green-tailed Towhee 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon 7. Green-tailed Towhee 4/25/1999 Elliot and Cooper Roads 8. Green-tailed Towhee 5/1/1999 Elliot and Cooper Roads 9. Green-tailed Towhee 5/2/1999 Elliot and Cooper Roads 10. Green-tailed Towhee 4/9/2000 Elliot and Cooper Roads 11. Green-tailed Towhee 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Oh -- what a crested rufous crown! 12. Green-tailed Towhee 5/18/2001 Salton Sea 13. Green-tailed Towhee 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon Excellent views and two at a time. 14. Green-tailed Towhee 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon 15. Green-tailed Towhee 06/04/2002 Arizona State University He was lying DEAD on the ledge out the window of the Memorial Union. He lay by two silver wires that seemed to me to be electric and that were there to kind of shock the pigeons away. I think this bird was killed by the shock. 16. Green-tailed Towhee 07/21/2002 Generic Place Anywhere This was at Estrella Community College where I played guitar for Rey Rivera. 17. Green-tailed Towhee 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon right when I arrived near the rest place. 18. Green-tailed Towhee 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Very green all of these and at least three seen. 19. Green-tailed Towhee 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon very rufous crown -- in fact I thought it was a ruby-crowned kinglet at first although it was big. almost a red crown. 20. Green-tailed Towhee 04/27/2003 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads He hopped along the ground by the great blue heron signs. 21. Green-tailed Towhee 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon 22. Green-tailed Towhee 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon 23. Green-tailed Towhee 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon 24. Green-tailed Towhee 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon 25. Green-tailed Towhee 09/14/2003 Superstitions sighted twice at least 26. Canyon Towhee 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon At first we thought these two birds were green-tailed towhees. But they weren't! 27. Green-tailed Towhee 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon 28. Green-tailed Towhee 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon 29. Green-tailed Towhee 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Very bright rufous head. Saw only one. Ditsworth only saw it with the naked eye. He had binocs but didn't use them for this bird. 30. Green-tailed Towhee 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon 31. Green-tailed Towhee 01/15/2006 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads A guy said he saw some and the guy next him said that there was one right in front of me under the bush and there he was! 32. Green-tailed Towhee 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon 33. Green-tailed Towhee 03/18/2006 Boyce Thompson Arboretum 34. Green-tailed Towhee 04/08/2006 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads 35. Green-tailed Towhee 04/16/2006 Elliot and Cooper Roads FIRST ONE SEEN HERE IN HOW LONG? THE LAST? Six years ago. SIX. April 8 of 2000. Six long years awaitin'. 36. Green-tailed Towhee 04/21/2007 2125 North Villas Lane This is the anniversary of Noodles' passing and an unusual bird has come to walk around her grave. This is the first Green-tailed Towhee ever recorded here. 37. Green-tailed Towhee 04/28/2007 Elliot and Cooper Roads 38. Green-tailed Towhee 05/05/2007 Elliot and Cooper Roads 39. Green-tailed Towhee 05/12/2007 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads A good un! 40. Green-tailed Towhee 06/16/2007 Elliot and Cooper Roads 41. Green-tailed Towhee 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon 42. Green-tailed Towhee 11/22/2008 Superstitions 43. Green-tailed Towhee 02/26/2009 Boyce Thompson Arboretum 44. Green-tailed Towhee 04/18/2009 Tucson Arizona Actually the 19th. At that pond area down Prinze Road where Jeff and I had gone. With Sally. Also in Tucson. 45. Green-tailed Towhee 1/8/2010 Elliot and Cooper Roads 46. Green-tailed Towhee 5/1/2010 2125 North Villas Lane 47. Green-tailed Towhee 5/2/2010 Elliot and Cooper Roads Well we haven't seen one here in a while. I saw him several times and even took a picture though not a very good one. 48. Green-tailed Towhee 9/4/2010 Elliot and Cooper Roads DEAD DEAD DEAD I THINK IT WAS A GT TOWHEE. It had a very rufous crown. 49. Green-tailed Towhee 12/16/2010 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads OH WHAT A SIGHT. I thought he was just a WC sparrow with the rufous top. He was small and green and rufous-crowned and in a tree. 50. Green-tailed Towhee 2/18/2011 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads Nice view. A surprise to see him by the trail where the goldfinches might be after you come up from the bench. 51. Green-tailed Towhee 4/3/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads ONCE THERE WAS A 6-YEAR WAIT TO SEE THIS BIRD HERE. This one was in the paloverde tree nearest the sidewalk in Pond 10. That's about where he's been seen before if not ON the sidewalk. 52. Green-tailed Towhee 4/5/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads Last bird I saw as I walked out. It was along the sidewalk. Where else? That's where he has always been seen when he is seen at all. 53. Green-tailed Towhee 4/18/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads I think this is the guy I saw yesterday and the day before. 54. Green-tailed Towhee 4/19/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads THERE HE WAS AGAIN! 55. Green-tailed Towhee 4/21/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads Saw a sparrow-sized thing and then saw its RUFOUS CROWN. 56. Green-tailed Towhee 4/22/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads He's been hanging out on the sidewalk area just as the other have been seen for years. 57. Green-tailed Towhee 4/25/2011 Elliot and Cooper Roads Along the sidewalk as usual. 58. Green-tailed Towhee 2/1/2012 Elliot and Cooper Roads 59. Green-tailed Towhee 2/3/2012 Elliot and Cooper Roads YAY! Up at the end of the viewing area. 60. Green-tailed Towhee 2/5/2012 Elliot and Cooper Roads 61. Green-tailed Towhee 3/13/2012 Elliot and Cooper Roads 62. Green-tailed Towhee 5/1/2013 Elliot and Cooper Roads Haven seen one of these for a while 63. Green-tailed Towhee 5/10/2013 Elliot and Cooper Roads Yes it was HIM and I saw him four times I think. 64. Green-tailed Towhee 5/3/2019 Superstitions Haven't seen one since May the tenth '13 at E&C roads. That's just shy of 6 years .... 65. Green-tailed Towhee 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Good bird 66. Green-tailed Towhee 9/6/2020 Sun Lakes NWPond Zowie 67. Green-tailed Towhee 9/14/2020 Sun Lakes two at NWPond 68. Green-tailed Towhee 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Dits took a picture. 69. Green-tailed Towhee 12/29/2021 Sun Lakes Under my grapefruit tree. 70. Green-tailed Towhee 12/16/2023 Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads GOOD BIRD Dit's picture above. |