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side and looked with delight at the captive bird. He was gently removed to a smaller wire cage and taken inside where he met a whole class of admirers. A band was placed on his right leg that had a string of numbers; this was recorded along with the date, sex (male), age (adult, his red eye told us this), and other pentinent information.
At last, he was taken outside where the student holding him slowly opened his hand. The towhee was on his back, when restraining fingers were relaxed, the bird looked around, suddenly righted himself, and darted to the bare limb of a tree. For a moment, he pecked at the band on his leg. Then with a flash of white tail feathers, he flew away in gracefully undulating flight and dissapeared into a thicket — a towhee’s favorite habitat. From there we heard a questioning, towhee? He called his name.
Exactly 10 years later, to the very day, a banded towhee was again trapped. It was the same bird! His plumage had even more luster than it had when he was first captured. This 10-year-old was indeed elegant. I asked myself: “,1s there any other animal that displays more splendor as it grows older?”
The song of the towhee has a clarifying ring and carrying power. It consists of three distinct notes: drink your tee, which the male instructs over and over from some exposed perch, often from the very top
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