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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.
Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes, and skimmers. They are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Thirty-two species have been recorded in Illinois.
Golden-crowned sparrow: north-central Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands as far west as Unimak Island) and central Yukon south to the northwestern corner of the US state of Washington, and wintering from southern coastal Alaska to northern Baja California Zonotrichia capensis: Rufous-collared sparrow
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) 71 Golden-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia atricapilla (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 72 Harris's sparrow: Zonotrichia querula (Nuttall, 1840) 73 White-throated sparrow: Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 74 Sagebrush sparrow: Artemisiospiza nevadensis (Ridgway, 1874) 75 Bell's sparrow
Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms.. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the ...
Also includes the population from Amak Island [21] named M. m. amaka Gabrielson & Lincoln, 1951 (Amak song sparrow) which was extirpated due to habitat destruction, apparently disappearing in the weeks around New Year's Eve, 1980/1981 (there were unconfirmed sightings in 1987 and 1988). Melospiza melodia insignis Baird, 1869, Bischoff song sparrow.
Prey identified include passerine birds such as horned lark, black-capped chickadee, common starling, brewer's sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, dark-eyed junco, pine siskin, house sparrow, small mammals such as the vagrant shrew, western harvest mouse, deer mouse, long-tailed vole, meadow vole and house mouse, and reptiles such as spiny lizards.