Pipilo maculatus x erythrophthalmus Status: Uncommon summer resident statewide except extreme northwest and extreme southeast. Taxonomy: It has been assumed that hybridization and/or introgression occurs statewide, but the relative contributions of genetics and adaptation (controlled presumably by assortative mating) to the distributions of phenotypic Eastern and Spotted Towhees and putative intergrades is unknown. There have […]
