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Articles

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2025)

SPOTTED TOWHEE MIMICRY OF A BLUE JAY

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB56.2.5
Submitted
September 9, 2025
Published
April 1, 2025

Abstract

On 27 March 2024 I video- and audio-recorded a Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) mimicking the “jay” call of the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) at Centennial, Colorado. Although the closely related Eastern Towhee (P. erythrophthalmus) has been noted imitating other birds a few times, the only previous report of the Spotted Towhee mimicking dates to the 19th century.

 

 

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