"Drink your tea!" says the Eastern Towhee 🎼 This large Sparrow looks almost the same as the Spotted Towhee of the western US. They were considered the same species, the Rufous-sided Towhee, until 1995 when taxonomists split them into two separate species. Their vocalizations are different. If you live in the Eastern US you may be familiar with this song 🎶 #birdsong #birdsounds | Navarre Marshall

2.1K views · 50 reactions | This is the “Drink-your-tea-he-he-he"-song of the Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus). Faridah Dahlan of our Feather Identification Lab sent us this #SpeakBird call, while wearing her PPE and continuing the museum's essential work of identifying the birds that strike airplanes (Thank you Faridah!). Do you #SpeakBird? Take a video, use the hashtag, and let everyone know which  you are imitating. | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Facebook