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Clay-colored Sparrow -
(Spizella pallida)
 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
    Streaked brown above, clear
         pale underparts
  • Brown streaked crown with center 
         light stripe
  • Clear grey nape
  • Clearly outlined cheek patch
  • Notched tail
  • 5-5.5" (13-14 cm.)

Habitat

  • Brushy open areas, thickets
  • Forest edges

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant, rare summer
         resident south
  • More common summer resident
         northern half of WI
  • Often found in young pine plantations
  • A few found on the Reserve in recent
         summers

Comparable Species

  • Chipping Sparrows
  • Field Sparrow

Close up of the Clay-colored Sparrow 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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