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Lincoln's Sparrow

Melospiza lincolnii

Description:

Adults have dark-streaked olive-brown upperparts with a light brown breast with fine streaks, a white belly, and a white throat. They have a brown cap with a grey stripe in the middle, olive-brown wings, and a narrow tail. Their face is grey with brown cheeks, a brown line through the eye, and an eye ring.

Habitat:

They forage is dense cover in the northern US and Canada during breeding season, and migrate south the the southern US, Mexico, and northern Central America in the winter.

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1 Comment

beallburton
beallburton 11 years ago

Good bird.

AshleyT
Spotted by
AshleyT

Galveston, Texas, USA

Spotted on Jan 2, 2013
Submitted on Jan 7, 2013

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