The Green-tailed Towhee is marked by a green tail, rusty crown, and gray face and breast. It breeds in western U.S. shrublands and moves south to the southern United States and Mexico for winter.
Adults have a rusty crown, gray face and breast, white throat, and greenish wings and tail.
During breeding, it walks beneath sagebrush and other shrubs, scratching leaf litter with both feet to uncover seeds and insects. It migrates south for winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.