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==Description== [[File:SpottedTowhee-24JAN2017.jpg|alt=Spotted Towhee female|thumb|left|224x224px|Female in [[Sacramento, California]].]] The spotted towhee is a large [[American sparrow|New World sparrow]], roughly the same size as a [[American Robin|robin]]. It has a long, dark, fan-shaped tail with white corners on the end. It has a round body (similar to [[American sparrow|New World sparrows]]) with bright red eyes and dull pink legs. The spotted towhee is between {{Convert|17|cm|in|abbr=on}} and {{Convert|21|cm|in|abbr=on}} long, and weighs in at between {{Convert|33|g|oz|abbr=on}} and {{Convert|49|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name="r10"/> It has a wingspan of 11.0 in (28 cm).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spotted Towhee Identification |website=All About Birds |publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology|url=https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Spotted_Towhee/id|access-date=2020-09-30|language=en}}</ref> Adult males have a generally darker head, upper body and tail with a white belly, [[rufous]] sides, white spots on their back and white wing bars. Females look similar but are dark brown and grey instead of black. The spotted towhee has white spots on its primary and secondary feathers; the [[Eastern towhee]] is the same bird in terms of its size and structure but does not have white spots.<ref name="r10"/>
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