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Photo Study Of A Clay-colored Sparrow And Some Other Birds At The Koch Property, February 21st, 2010

Arlene and David Koch have created an incredible oasis for birds on their property in the middle of farm country in Easton, PA. They have planted all sorts of seeds, e.g. sunflower, millet, etc. in their fields and their beautiful summer garden brings in lots and lots of hummingbirds. In any event, they have recorded 239 species on their property list so far and the current visitor to their feeders is a Clay-colored Sparrow.

Clay-colored Sparrow

The Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) is a small sparrow of North America. Non-breeding adults and immatures resemble Chipping and Brewer's Sparrows; they often form flocks with these birds outside of the nesting season. Its breeding habitat is shrubby open areas and Jack Pine woods across central Canada and central northern United States east to the Great Lakes, and is expanding further eastward into western Pennsylvania and New York.. The nest is an open cup on the ground or low in a shrub. These birds migrate in flocks to southern and Mexico.

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