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What the Savannah Sparrow sounds like
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The Savannah sparrow has a typically sparrow-like dark-streaked brown back, and whitish underparts with brown or blackish breast and flank streaking. It has whitish crown and supercilium stripes, sometimes with some yellow (more often near the beak). The cheeks are brown and the throat white. The flight feathers are blackish-brown with light brown or white border. The eyes are dark. The feet and legs are horn-colored, as is the lower part of the bill, with the upper part being dark grey.
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When to see the Savannah Sparrow
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Savannah Sparrow
The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Norway, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Colombia.
About the Savannah Sparrow
The Savannah sparrow is a small New World sparrow that is the only member of the genus Passerculus. It is a widespread and abundant species that occupies open grassland habitats in North America.
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Easily confused with
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatusThe spotted towhee is a large New World sparrow, roughly the same size as a gray catbird.
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaMeasurements:
Length: 4.7–5.9 in (12–15 cm)
Weight: 0.5–0.8 oz (15–23 g)
Wingspan: 7.1–7.5 in (18–19 cm)
Adults have streaked rusty, buff and black upperparts with an unstreaked gray breast, light belly and a white throat.
Field SparrowSpizella pusillaAdults have brown upperparts, a buffy breast, a white belly, two whitish wing bars and a dark-brown forked tail.
Side by side: Savannah Sparrow vs Spotted Towhee · Savannah Sparrow vs Swamp Sparrow · Field Sparrow vs Savannah Sparrow
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