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Scientists occasionally change the names of birds, which is what has happened with the towhee. No matter what you call it, rufoussided, eastern or spotted, the towhee is a familiar bird to almost every bird watcher in the Virginia Piedmont.
Towhees are birds of thickets, shrubby fields, and thick wood edges, and they are visitors in my Flint Hill backyard, at least in migration or on cold winter days when the feeders are most active.
Just to sort out the name confusion, what we once thought of as rufous-sided towhees occur in two populations, one in the East and one in the West.
They are very similar except that the birds in the West have white spotting on the back and the western females are usually darker than the eastern females. They were considered separate species, rufoussided in our backyards and spotted species were in the West. Towhees in our area are now called eastern
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