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Chipping Sparrow

Spizella passerina

Photo by DonnaPomeroy
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Field Notes

Description:

Throughout the year, adults are gray below and an orangish-rust color above. Adults in alternate (breeding) plumage have a persimmon-red cap, a nearly white supercilium, and a black trans-ocular line (running through the eye). Adults in basic (nonbreeding) plumage are less prominently marked, with a brownish cap, a dusky eyebrow, and a dark eye-line.

Habitat:

coniferous forest

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