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Field Sparrow
| Color: |
Brown, Gray |
| Size: |
5.75" |
| Season: |
Year-round |
| Description: |
The head is gray with a pink bill, rufous crown, faint rufous stripe behind the eye, and white eye ring. Note the unmarked breast and pink legs. The similar American Tree Sparrow is a rare winter visitor, has a bold rufous eye stripe, bicolored yellow-and-black bill, black spot on the breast, and darker legs. Also compare to the smaller Chipping Sparrow, and very rare and localized Rufous-crowned Sparrow. |
| Voice: |
An accelerating series of tew notes that run together into a trill, like the pattern of a bouncing ping-pong ball.
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| Habitat: |
Successional old fields, woodland openings and edges, roadsides and railroads near open fields, abandoned agricultural and grazed fields, forest edges, and fencerows. |
| Interesting Fact: |
Feeds directly on fallen seeds or flies to the tops of grasses, letting weight carry stems to the ground; then begins removing seeds. |
| Scientific name: |
Spizella pusilla |
| Order: |
Passeriformes |
| Family: |
Emberizidae |
Adult Howard Eskin |
Nest and eggs Jason Luscier |
Adult Dan Scheiman |
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