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Chipping Sparrow -
(Spizella passerina)  Audio
Identification
- Small songbird with brown streaked back
- Reddish cap
- Clear grey breast, face and rump
- Distinct white stripe over eye
- Black line through eye
- Non-breeding plumage is much duller,
cap looks brown
- 5.5" (14 cm.)
Habitat
- Open woodlands, forest edges
- Residential areas
Additional Information
- Common migrant and summer resident
- Well-suited to living near human habitation
- Song a dry chippy trill
- Molts face and throat feathers up to
six times per year
- Abundant KVR breeding bird
Comparable Species - Clay-colored Sparrow
- American Tree Sparrow
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