Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus
Synopsis: Nests in open woods, towns, and shrubland throughout valleys and foothills of western Oregon, and eastward mainly in wooded or shrubby riparian habitats, becoming localized or absent from some of the Columbia Basin.

Habitat Associations:
strongest
Red Alder (125162 acres)
Coastal Headland Grass & Shrubland (2285 acres)
Edges of Recently Cutover/Burnt Forest (1673562 acres)
Western Oregon Riverine Woodland (27749 acres)
Streamside/Wetland Shrubland (2171 acres)
strong
Jeffery Pine Forest/Woodland (53780 acres)
Conifer Woodland on Serpentine Bedrock (51874 acres)
Douglas Fir-Mixed Deciduous Forest (2934 acres)
Douglas Fir-White Fir/Tanoak-Madrone Mixed Forest (1126272 acres)
Douglas Fir/White Oak Forest (196688 acres)
Mixed Conifer/Mixed Deciduous Forest (1428540 acres)
Siskiyou Mtns Mixed Deciduous Forest (200392 acres)
White Oak Forest (115577 acres)
South coast Mixed Forest (2888 acres)
Siskiyou Mtns Shrubland on Serpentine Bedrock (32403 acres)
Manzanita-dominant Shrubland (14271 acres)
Northeast Canyon Grass & Shrubland (400429 acres)
Grassland & Fir-Ponderosa Interspersed (355352 acres)
Urban/Residential (597036 acres)
some
Ponderosa Pine-dominant Mixed Conifer Forest (363779 acres)
Northeast Mixed Conifer Forest (2359035 acres)
Coastal Lodgepole Forest (757 acres)
Douglas Fir-W. Hemlock-W. Red Cedar Forest (6616951 acres)
Douglas Fir-Port Orford Cedar Forest (166447 acres)
Ponderosa Pine Forest/Woodland (3696239 acres)
Douglas Fir dominant - Mixed Conifer Forest (2505068 acres)
Ponderosa Pine/White Oak Forest & Woodland (163195 acres)
Ponderosa Pine-W. Juniper Woodland (101741 acres)
W. Juniper Woodland (2860923 acres)
Aspen Groves (22267 acres)
Northeast Modified Grassland (831326 acres)
Edges of Cropland/Pasture/Orchard (5682766 acres)
Lake/Pond Shoreline & Islands (581651 acres)
lesser
True Fir-Hemlock Montane Forest (1466188 acres)
Lodgepole Pine Forest/Woodland (117540 acres)
Ponderosa-Lodgepole Pine on Pumice (824431 acres)

Relative Detectability: Easy to detect by sight and song, and fairly easy to confirm breeding.

Challenge: Determine if this species breeds more widely than shown in riparian areas of Crook, eastern Grant, southern Deschutes, northern Klamath, northern Lake, Harney, and Malheur Counties.