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Baby Sparrows
Spizella pusilla
39.4353, -84.203
Field Notes
Description:
The field sparrow is a brownish sparrow ith a plain buffy breast and a rusty red cap, but no other distinct markings. The bill, however, is very different. It is pink while most other birds have dark bills.
Habitat:
Field sparrows occupy a wide variety of brushy successional habitats. They frequent abandoned fields and cutover hillsides where herbaceous vegetation is interspersed with brushy tangles and scattered saplings. They have a very sweet, melodic quality to their songs, and the trill speeds up at the end. The song sounds much like a ping-pong ball that is dropped and bounces to a stop.
Notes:
Nest construction is initiated during the second half of April and continues into May. The nest consists of a woven cup of grass and rootlets and is usually on the ground hidden in a clump of grass or weeds. The four eggs are greenish with brown spots. Most first clutches are produced by mid-May and broods fledge in mid-June. Most pairs are double-brooded, and some pairs in the southern Ohio counties could raise three broods annually.
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