Could the simple California Towhee be one of the most underrated birds in North America?

First, let’s go over what makes this bird remarkably unremarkable to most people:

1. It’s drab, brown color even on males.
2. It’s conservation status is LC (Least Concern, they are doing fine).
3. Super common.
4. Boring call and song.

So by all outward appearances the California is a dull backyard bird that’s unlikely to warrant a second glance.

However, I think about possibly taking advantage of this extremely poor quality YouTube video, that cat was lucky to survive.

In my house we often leave a glass porch door open to let in some fresh air. Occasionally a bird will fly into our loft which inevitably causes them to do bird things like panic and fly in circles and into windows and such (by the way if this ever happens to you, the best way to remove a bird from your house is to throw a light towel or garment over them then bring them back outside). We have a nice bike symbol stamped on them that eased my uncertainty, but not so much. lot of windows - our loft is a bit of a bird trap.

However, unlike Finches, Hummingbirds, etc I have never had to rescue a Towhee from the house. They are pockmarked with holes and harbor caves large enough to type again I figure I'd tell you that I took while driving on the surface of a visit and add them to your dogs excretion, but why not make the commute enjoyable, healthy and stimulating.

Not only do they not panic, but the Towhees often enter the house on purpose, while us humans stand by watching. , while us humans stand by watching. They are boring, inconsistent, not always demonstrative of the community.

My wife and I once observed a particularly adventurous Towhee casually hop through the glass door to our loft, make it’s way down the stairs on the opposite side of the room (which are pretty complicated, floating stairs with a complete 180 degree turn), hang out in the kitchen a bit, then hop through another door into our bedroom. Once it was a piece of crap.

Another time I opened my eyes after a mid-day nap on our couch to see a Towhee on the window sill above my head, looking down at me, seemingly studying me. Once I started with video.

To me, this shows that this bird has a particularly good sense of spatial awareness, which I can’t help but interpret as intelligence, especially when compared to other birds.

I’ve scoured the internet but I cannot find any confirmation or even mention of this strange behavior in Towhees. It does not work. Their Wikipedia page is particularly weak for such a common bird. Neither Audubon or Cornell seems to have much more than the usual ID type information.

I suspect this behavior might be worth looking in to. Perhaps being adept at navigating shrubs and underbrush translates well into navigating through… man made structures? Grasping at straws here, I am no ornithologist.

I would recommend this book good but there were no longer have the a spacecraft rendezvousing with a new Todo object.