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Song sparrow

Melospiza melodia

Description:

Adult song sparrows have brown upperparts with dark streaks on the back and are white underneath with dark streaking and a dark brown spot in the middle of the breast. They have a brown cap and a long brown rounded tail. Their face is gray with a streak through the eye.

Habitat:

Spotted foraging in one of the sloughs at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.

Notes:

Song sparrows typically learn their songs from a handful of other birds that have neighboring territories. They are most likely to learn songs that are shared between these neighbors. Ultimately, they will choose a territory close to or replacing the birds that they have learned from. This allows the song sparrows to address their neighbors with songs shared with those neighbors. It has been demonstrated that song sparrows are able to distinguish neighbors from strangers on the basis of song, and also that females are able to distinguish (and prefer) their mate's songs from those of other neighboring birds, and they prefer songs of neighboring birds to those of strangers.- Wikipedia. - (fascinating)!

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Brian38
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Brian38

Washington, USA

Spotted on Mar 2, 2018
Submitted on Mar 3, 2018

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