Spotted Towhee

Pipilo maculatus

Spotted Towhee photographed by Mark Curtis
Ojai · May 13, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 4.5M open records.

Records by month. January, 347,454 records. February, 350,407 records. March, 397,861 records. April, 511,065 records. May, 626,826 records. June, 481,498 records. July, 355,859 records. August, 246,813 records. September, 285,232 records. October, 323,809 records. November, 286,652 records. December, 332,620 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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