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Song Sparrow -
(Melospiza melodia)
 

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Identification

  • Streaked brown above
  • Light below with heavy streaking
         and central spot
  • Long rounded tail
  • 5-6.75" (13-17 cm.) 

Habitat

  • Shrubby and residential areas
  • Forest edge

Additional Information

  • Abundant migrant and summer resident
  • Common backyard bird, persistent singer
  • Often seen hopping on the ground
  • Nests on or near the ground
  • One of the most abundant breeding
         birds on the KVR

Song Sparrow on a shrub

Song Sparrow sitting on top of Compass Plant

 

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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