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The white-crowned sparrow is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. [5] It has been sighted in England, Scotland, [5] [6] Ireland, [7] and Norway. [8] In 2008 a white-crowned sparrow was spotted in Cley next the Sea in Norfolk, England. [9] To commemorate the event an image of the bird was included in a window at St Margaret's Church.
The female lays brown-blotched greenish-blue or greenish white eggs, which she incubates for 12–14 days. The male helps in feeding the chicks. Zonotrichia sparrows feed on the ground on seeds , fallen grain, insects and spiders .
Jim McCormac visits Slate Run Metro Park to see and hear white-crowned sparrows, especially the young birds practicing their song. Young white-crowned sparrows perfecting melody still a delight to ...
White-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forster, JR, 1772) 70 Golden-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia atricapilla (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 71 Harris's sparrow: Zonotrichia querula (Nuttall, 1840) 72 White-throated sparrow: Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 73 Sagebrush sparrow: Artemisiospiza nevadensis (Ridgway, 1874) 74 Bell's sparrow
The golden-crowned sparrow is one of five species in the genus Zonotrichia, a group of large American sparrows. [2] It has no subspecies. [3] It is a sister species with, and very closely related to, the white-crowned sparrow; studies of mitochondrial DNA show the two evolved into separate species very recently in geologic time.
The chipping sparrow lays a clutch of two to seven pale blue to white eggs with black, brown, or purple markings. They are about 17 by 12 millimetres (0.67 by 0.47 in), and incubated by the female for 10 to 15 days. [7] The chipping sparrow is often brood parasitized by brown-headed cowbirds, usually resulting in the nest being abandoned. [6]
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The nest, built by the female, is a neat lined cup constructed less than 2 m up in a bush or large tussock. The female lays a clutch of two or three ruddy-blotched white eggs, which she incubates for 12–14 days. The male helps in feeding the chicks. This species is sometimes parasitised by the bronzed cowbird.