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	Field Sparrow
		Field Sparrows also prefer an environment where about half of the woody vegetation is more than 5 feet high.
		Although hatchling Field Sparrows are fed insects by their parents, adult diets consist of grass and weed seeds.
		Field Sparrows are probably more common now than in pre-colonial times when the East was largely forested, but their heyday followed the clearing of land for agriculture and the subsequent abandonment of marginal lands.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /field_sparrow_info.htm (511 words)

	Field Sparrow
		Field Sparrow: Four brown-spotted pale green eggs are laid in a woven cup-shaped nest of grass, lined with rootlets or fine grass and set on or near the ground.
		Field Sparrow: The call is a series of soft, plaintive notes, all on the same pitch, accelerating to a trill at the end.
		Field Sparrow: Similar is the Clay-colored Sparrow which has a brown crown with a central stripe, a buffy cheek patch, gray nape, and whitish underparts with a buffy wash on breast.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/210/_/Field_Sparrow.aspx (790 words)

	East Hampton Star - In the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The song sparrow, of brown-striped buffy breast with one large dark spot smack in the middle, is the most ubiquitous of all and is one of two sparrow species that you are apt to see around your house in all four seasons.
		Another grassland sparrow that breeds on Long Island, the vesper sparrow, known for its lilting afternoon song and its red shoulder patch, breeds in the grasslands adjoining the county airport in Westhampton Beach and other piney grasslands to the west.
		The most common winter sparrow at local feeders is, of course, the white-throated sparrow, the one with the white stripes on the head above the eye and the white chin patch.
	www.easthamptonstar.com /20031016/out1.htm (1089 words)

	Field Sparrow
		In Lincoln County, field sparrow is a local summer resident occurring 19 April to 12 October (Tout 1947).
		We found most field sparrows during the nesting season at the edge of native grasslands being invaded by Rocky Mountain juniper, and containing an abundance of soapweed yucca.
		Field sparrow appears to be very opportunistic in its selection of nesting habitat including shrub-grassland (Best 1979), brushy stands with little or no overstory (Crawford et al.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/distr/birds/platte/species/spizpusi.htm (521 words)

	field sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Field Sparrow, Spizella pusilla, is a small sparrow.
		Their breeding habitat is shrubby fields across eastern North America.
		The nest is an open cup on the ground under a clump of grass or in a small thicket.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /field_sparrow.html (235 words)

	Winter Sparrows
		Sparrows are the least colorful members of a large family of birds that includes cardinals and tanagers.
		The house sparrow and the Eurasian tree sparrow of the St. Louis area are members of a group of finchlike birds known as weavers because of their habit of building large woven nests of dead grass.
		Field sparrows are common nesting birds throughout Missouri, but retreat to the southern-most counties to ride out the winter.
	www.mdc.missouri.gov /nathis/birds/sparrows (1690 words)

	Birds Every Child Should Know: Chapter 8
		While the neighbourly song sparrow and the swamp sparrow delight to be near water, the field sparrow chooses to live in dry uplands where stunted bushes and cedars cover the hills and overgrown old fields, and towhees and brown thrashers keep him company.
		The tree sparrow, which, unlike the chippy, has no fl on his forehead, wears an indistinct fl spot on the centre of his breast where the chippy is plain gray, and the field sparrow is buffy.
		Except the white-crowned sparrow, who wears a fl and white-striped soldier cap on his head, and who sometimes travels in migrating flocks with his cousins, the white-throated sparrow is the handsomest member of his plain tribe.
	www.kellscraft.com /ECSKBirds/ECSKBirds08.html (5294 words)

	Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Birds: Field Sparrow
		Field Sparrows breed from central Montana and Wyoming to eastern North Dakota, south through southcentral Texas to northern Florida, and north to central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, Michigan, southern Quebec, and Maine (National Geographic Society 1987).
		In Illinois, Field Sparrows were observed more frequently in a corn field under no-tillage treatment than in a conventionally tilled corn field, possibly because there was greater availability of invertebrates in the former corn field (Warburton and Klimstra 1984).
		Field Sparrows were not affected by the spraying; the number of singing male Field Sparrows did not significantly differ between the treated areas and the control areas.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/literatr/grasbird/fisp/fisp.htm (5490 words)

	Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla - Bruant des champs
		Field sparrow has a grey face with reddish crown and thin white eyering.
		Field Sparrow needs good singing perches, so prefers areas where half of the woody vegetation is higher than 5 feet high.
		Field sparrow's nest is placed on or near the ground in grass clumps or at base of shrubs.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/passeriformes/field.sparrow.html (638 words)

	Field Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Field Sparrows are well known to birdwatchers by their plaintive trill and easily-recognized field marks.
		Field Sparrows are one of the easiest species to detect due to their persistent singing.
		Field Sparrows are expected to have bred in most blocks in which they were observed.
	www.conservation.state.mo.us /nathis/birds/birdatlas/maintext/0400257.htm (497 words)

	SONG RECOGNITION BY FIELD SPARROWS
		The Field Sparrow songs were the same as in Experiment 1, and the synthetic songs had a tempo similar to that in a Field Sparrow song.
		When the strange songs originated within the territory of a Field Sparrow, the male did not necessarily increase his song output, but most advertised their presence by flying, and these flights were often oriented precisely to the source of the strange songs.
		Male Field Sparrows did not react vigorously to songs of neighboring birds when these were played near a common territorial border, but they did respond to the song of a stranger played from the same position.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v090n01/p0106-p0113.html (4075 words)

	Birds - Field Sparrow
		Simply because both birds have chestnut crowns, the field sparrow is often mistaken for the dapper, sociable chippy; and, no doubt because it loves such heathery, grassy pastures as are dear to the vesper sparrow, and has bay wings and a sweet song, these two cousins also are often confused.
		The field spar-row has a more reddish-brown upper back than any of its small relatives; the absence of streaks on its breast and of the white tail quills so conspicuous in the vesper sparrow's flight, sufficiently differentiate the two birds, while the red bill of the field sparrow is a positive mark of identification.
		But however the opinions as to the syllables of the field sparrow's song may differ, all are agreed as to its exquisite quality, that resembles the vesper sparrow's tender, sweet melody.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/birds-84.shtml (447 words)

	Field Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Field Sparrow is a bit of misnomer for this smallest of the sparrows, as it prefers thick growth and brushy, overgrown pastures to open fields.
		In a survey of breeding birds in the park, performed from 1996-1999, 11 Field Sparrows were observed during the breeding season.
		Changes in its habitat, as old fields grow to forest or areas are cleared for human habitation or agriculture, are most likely the primary reasons for the declines.
	www.dlia.org /atbi/species/animals/vertebrates/birds/emberizidae/field_sparrow.shtml (829 words)

	Birds and Nature: The Sparrow Family
		The field sparrow is about the same size as the chipping sparrow and its head and back are of the same color.
		It is as fond of the meadows as the field sparrow.
		The winter chippy or tree sparrow is a winter bird, in the United States appearing in the fall and flying away early in the spring.
	www.birdnature.com /oct1901/sparrow.html (740 words)

	Field Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their breeding habitat is shrubby fields across North America.
		For the beginning birder, the identification of Sparrows (in particular) and Finches can be a trying experience due to their similarity in appearance.
		I am reticent to call it a field guide because it is so much more than that.
	www.freeglossary.com /Field_Sparrow (458 words)

	All About Birds
		The Field Sparrow is a common, drab sparrow of brushy pastures and old fields.
		If a male Field Sparrow survives the winter, it usually returns to breed in the same territory each year.
		The female is less likely to return to the same territory, and young sparrows only rarely return the next year to where they were born.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Field_Sparrow.html (202 words)

	Field Sparrow Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The habitat of the Field Sparrow consists of shrubby, brushy, or early successional vegetation with little tree cover.
		Although the Field Sparrow is a fairly common winter resident throughout much of the northern half of Florida, in the breeding season it is restricted to the Panhandle and the extreme northern peninsula.
		The Field Sparrow's song is distinctive, but it can be missed by those who cannot hear the plaintive whistles that usually end in a high, rapid trill.
	wld.fwc.state.fl.us /bba/FISP.htm (282 words)

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		In contrast field sparrow habitat is brushy pastures, meadows, woodland edges, abandoned hayfields and briar thickets.
		Like the chippy, field sparrows’ nests are low with the first often on the ground, second is three or four feet in low, thick shrubs or trees.
		The field sparrow is told by its pinkish bill and legs, unstreaked crown and lack of a dark eye line.
	www.indreg.com /Print.cfm?PageID=352&Print=True (748 words)

	Chipping Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A flock of 25-30 Chipping Sparrows (sparrow species number 8 Â½) erupted out of the grass and were tossed by the wind into the trees.
		The Chipping Sparrow, Spizella passerina, is a small sparrow.
		They are similar in appearance to the American Tree Sparrow.
	www.wikiverse.org /chipping-sparrow (284 words)

	Birds and Nature: The Field Sparrow
		The Field Sparrow is the smallest of our sparrows and is quite easily distinguished from the other species by its reddish bill.
		Instead of the field it seems to prefer the pasture, with its weeds and bushes.
		The Field Sparrow when frightened does not retreat to the cover of foliage, as does the Song Sparrow, but flies to an exposed position on top of bush or low tree, where it can watch and await developments.
	www.birdnature.com /nov1901/sparrow.html (507 words)

	BISON Species Account 041825 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW MEXICO 1978: Field sparrows migrate and winter irregularly in the extreme southeast and are considered rare to uncommon (Hubbard, 1978) 24.
		In Georgia, the Field Sparrow was found to be an edge species that has an average abundance of 0 on control patches, 1.10 on large isolated patches, and 0.40 on small isolated patches (McIntyre, 1995) 40.
		Field sparrows inhabit shrublands at lower elevations (2800-5500 ft).
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /states/nmex_main/species/041825.htm (502 words)

	Field Sparrow Habitat Model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Field sparrows were described as an edge species by Johnstone (1947 in Dechant et al.
		Model testing: The field sparrow occurrences along Breeding Bird Survey routes throughout the study area were used to test the habitat map.
		We compared the presence of habitat near a random set of 618 upland points within the range of the bird, to that for Breeding Bird Survey stops at which field sparrows were observed in 1990, 1997, or 1998.
	www.fws.gov /r5gomp/gom/habitatstudy/metadata/field_sparrow_model.htm (925 words)

	Field Sparrow Princeton Audubon Limited Edition -- Garden Accents and Wild Bird Products
		Audubon wrote of it: "Travelling from Egg Harbor towards Philadelphia, I found a nest of this species placed at the foot of a bush growing in almost pure sand.
		Near it were the plants which you see accompanying the figure."A pink bill and plain breast are characteristic field marks of this bird, and the term "field" is a bit misleading as it is rarely seen in cultivated fields, but rather in woodland borders or old pasture lots growing up with weeds and bushes.
		It is a persistent singer and from a singing perch, usually atop a bush or small tree, it sends forth its clear, sweet, and melancholy notes.
	www.everythingbirds.com /field-sparrow-princeton.html (146 words)

	SONG CATEGORIES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN THE FIELD SPARROW (SPIZELLA PUSILLA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A stuffed Field Spar- row, held in a vertical position by a thin wire, was placed atop the speaker.
		The evidence from five species (Field Sparrow, Black-throated Green Warbler, Aquatic Warbler, Willow War- bler, and Great Reed Warbler) supports the con- clusion that male songbirds perceive differ- ences between song categories (song types that are characteristically sung in different con- texts).
		Two song categories, distinguished by their acoustic structure, contextual usage, and potency in provoking responses from territorial males, are found in repertoires of individual male Field Sparrows (Spizella pusilia).
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v108n01/p0042-p0052.html (9357 words)

	Chipping Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Observers speculated that this was due to competition with the increasingly common House Sparrow, introduced from Europe, and from spreading cowbird nest parasitism.
		In the southeast, Chipping Sparrows are common in open pine forests; in the northern and mountain states, they can be found in openings in the forest, along streams and lakes, in spruce bogs mountain meadows and in stands of jack or red pine.
		The Chipping Sparrow is distinguished in adult plumage by its distinctive head pattern: rusty cap, white forehead bordered by fl; white superciliary stripe; fl ocular stripe, and gray rump.
	birds.cornell.edu /BOW/CHISPA (603 words)

	eNature.com Nature Guides
		When farms and pastures become overgrown with weeds and bushes, birds such as Field Sparrows and Indigo Buntings move in and nest.
		Although shyer than its close relative the Chipping Sparrow-and thus more difficult to observe-the Field Sparrow may be studied at leisure when it sings its sweet plaintive song from a conspicuous perch atop a bush or fence post.
		During fall migration it may be seen among mixed flocks of sparrows.
	www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0322 (103 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Field Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because they are northeast of their breeding range, they are given vagrant status, although they come and go more regularly than some transient or summer-resident sparrows.
		Remarks The Field Sparrow nests north to southwestern Quebec and southern New Brunswick, so its frequent occurrence here as a vagrant is not surprising.
		Its most distinctive field marks are its pinkish bill and its indistinctly marked face which, together with its eye ring, gives it a blank-faced appearance.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0364.htm (331 words)

	Worthen's Sparrow (Spizella wortheni)
		Although the first Worthen's Sparrow known to science was collected in New Mexico in the 1800's, the species has not been recorded with certainty in the U.S. since that time.
		Currently, Worthen's Sparrow is a locally uncommon resident of desert scrub in several northeastern Mexican states including Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
		The Worthen's Sparrow at left was a singing male near a nest site in June, 1994, near Las Esperanzas, Nuevo Leon.
	www.greglasley.net /wortspa.html (289 words)

	Bell's Vireo/Lincoln's Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On late Friday afternoon, Friday, December 7, 2001, David LaPuma and I located the Bell's Vireo and an adult Lincoln Sparrow in the tangle of brush on the south side of the "Lucky Hammock" just outside of Everglades NP.
		Take the first paved road to the Youth Camp heading south from 9336 outside the park, the hammock is ~1/4 mile down on the right).
		The millet fields on both side of the road are fair game for the hunters, so you should excercise extreme caution when birding in the area.
	www.tropicalaudubon.org /tasboard/messages/599.html (284 words)

	Latest 4/24/05 - Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
		Image # 19287 : Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla - Nikkor VR 80-400mm lens with a Nikon D100.
		Image # 19284 : Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla - Nikkor VR 80-400mm lens with a Nikon D100.
		Image # 19266 : Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla - Nikkor VR 80-400mm lens with a Nikon D100.
	www.1000birds.com /latest20050424FS.htm (134 words)

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