---
title: "Ziemnołuszcz czarnolicy"
description: "Melozone aberti — Ptaki. Abert's towhee (Melozone aberti) is a bird of the family Passerellidae, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, nearly endemic to Arizona, but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/abert-s-towhee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ziemnołuszcz czarnolicy

> Melozone aberti — Ptaki. Abert's towhee (Melozone aberti) is a bird of the family Passerellidae, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, nearly endemic to Arizona, but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico.

- Scientific name: *Melozone aberti*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `desert` (Pustynia)
- iNaturalist observations: 6261
- Wikidata: [Q3178867](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178867)
- iNaturalist taxon: [73041](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/73041)

## Names

- en: Abert's Towhee
- de: Schwarzkinngrundammer
- es: Rascador Enmascarado
- fr: Tohi d'Abert
- nl: Zwartkintowie
- pl: Ziemnołuszcz czarnolicy

## Countries with the most observations

US (5950), MX (40)

## Summary

Abert's towhee (Melozone aberti) is a bird of the family Passerellidae, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, nearly endemic to Arizona, but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abert%27s_towhee

## Photo

![Ziemnołuszcz czarnolicy](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/abert-s-towhee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Steve Wells · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9970507

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/abert-s-towhee?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).