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Chipping Sparrow

Spizella passerina

Description:

Smallish sparrow with rufous cap and dark eye line.

Habitat:

Beside building on sidewalk next to open fields.

Notes:

This chipping sparrow was demonstrating the proper way to eat an insect: catch, hold firmly in beak, then swallow it.

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janis
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janis

Virginia, USA

Spotted on Jul 22, 2015
Submitted on Jul 22, 2015

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