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Fox Sparrow

Passerella iliaca

Photo by alexmdevoy
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Field Notes

Description:

Large sparrow with gray hood, and rusty red markings and blotches on breast. Yellow bill.

Habitat:

Scrubby areas, leaf litter, low bushes on forest edges.

Notes:

Banding birds in Sandy Hook, NJ with Tom Brown. Was caught in mist net at around 8 o'clock in the morning.

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