Similar species Le Conte's Sparrow is higher-pitched, more tinny, and typically longer. Spectrographic description Gray head, rufous cap, and white eye-ring. Field Sparrow: Call is a series of soft, plaintive notes, all on the same pitch, accelerating to a trill at the end. Eighty-two species of New World Sparrows and Towhees in twenty-six genera are found in North America.
A field sparrow can live to be at least 10 years old. American tree sparrow. Gray-brown rump. Black-chinned sparrow. : "http://www. Many migrate hundreds or thousands of miles. Field Sparrow: Medium sparrow, rufous back with dark streaks, unstreaked, buff breast. The singer is a small, warm-toned sparrow with a rusty cap, neat white eyering, and pink bill. If a male Field Sparrow survives the winter, it usually returns to breed in the same territory each year. In general, bright colors are not a hallmark of this family although some species do show patches of bright orange and red-brown. Field sparrow. Spends winters south to the Gulf of Mexico and northeastern Mexico. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
0:00 / Field sparrow (song) song. Like many other birds, in winter they eat mostly plant matter, in this case seeds; in summer they eat a larger percentage of insects, which are plentiful in the warm months and which provide a high-protein diet for their growing young. Field Sparrow: Breeds from Saskatchewan, central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and southern Ontario and Quebec south to Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and central Texas. Black-throated sparrow. Lives in weedy, brushy fields, glades, and overgrown pastures. It may fly to the top of grass stalks, let its weight carry the stems to the ground, and then begin removing the seed. Brown, white, and gray plumages with streaked and spotted patterns are commonplace for the primarily dull colored sparrows. Typical song is a long series of down-slurred whistled notes, accelerating like the rhythm of a dropped ball: tew, tew tew-tew, tututututututuuu. The Field Sparrow’s most familiar song is a long, accelerating series of short whistles that build to a rapid trill. However there are exceptions, such as the boldly patterned plumages of black, white, and tan plumages displayed by the juncos, and the vibrant black and burnt orange of the towhees. document.write("