Chipping Sparrows
Chipping Sparrow, sp. name: “Spizella Passerina”
Description:
The Chipping Sparrow is a slender fairly long-tailed sparrow. Summer Chipping Sparrows look clean and crisp, with frosty underpants pale face, black line through the eye and topped with rusty color crown. In winter they are buff brown with streaky underpants. Chipping Sparrows feed on the ground.
Their habitat: They are found in open woodlands and forests with grassy clearings, also in parks, roadsides, backyards particularly if you have feeders.
Chipping Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
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Carolina Chickadee
Brown-Headed Nuthatch
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
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Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove, sp. name: “Zenaida Macroura”
Description:
Plump body and long tailed, with short legs, small bill and a head that looks particularly small in comparison to the body.
Mourning Doves are are a delicate brown to buffy-tan overall, with black spots on wings and black bordered white tips to the tail feathers.
Their habitat: They live nearly averywhere except deep woods, they are ground feeders and always form pairs or groups, never feed alone.
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove
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European Starling
European Starling, sp. name: “Sturnus Vulgaris”
Description:
Brought to America by european in the 19th Century, now they are very numerous in all the Continent.
Starlings are chunky and blackbird size but with short tail and long slender beaks. Their wings are short and pointed. In flight the look like four pointed stars hence the name.
At a distance they look black but in summer they are purplish-green or in winter they are brown with white spots. They travel in large groups and are loud.
Their habitat: They are common in towns, suburbs and countryside near humans, they feed on the ground on lawns, fields, sidewalks, they perch high on wires, roofs, buildings, trees.
I have seen this specie only twice.
European Starling
European Starling
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