Bermuda towhee

undescribed Olson & Hearty, 2009 The Bermuda towhee (Pipilo naufragus) is an extinct bird of the towhee genus Pipilo that was endemic to Bermuda.

It was a large member of the genus and closely related to the eastern towhee.

The scientific description was in 2012, based on Pleistocene and Holocene remains from Quaternary cave deposits.

An old travel report by William Strachey who was shipwrecked on Bermuda from 1609 to 1610 might refer to that species.

He wrote in 1625: Sparrowes fat and plumpe like a Bunting, bigger then ours.