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| | East Hampton Star - In the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | One of these, the grasshopper sparrow, with a short, cocky, stub of a tail, is quite rare. |
 | | A very pale, almost white species of the savannah is the Ipswich sparrow, which breeds on Sable Island, far to the north and east, and is seen here only in the winter, where you will most likely find it on the sands of coastal beachgrass-covered dunes, particularly along the ocean, but not the bays. |
 | | 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. |
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