Field Sparrow
Spizella pusilla
(L 5.5" WS 8.5" Wt 0.42 oz)
Small and drab with declining numbers
...male sings energetically until it finds a
mate and then sings only occasionally.
...male sings energetically until it finds a
mate and then sings only occasionally.
Morton Arboretum
Lisle
09Jul2010
Note the pinkish bill.
Spizella is a diminutive of
genus spiza; pusilla in Latin
means very small, tiny.
genus spiza; pusilla in Latin
means very small, tiny.
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Ornithology
Ornithology
© Audubon
Society
Society
Columbus Park
Chicago
09Apr2017
I once had a sparrow alight upon my
shoulder for a moment, while I was
hoeing in a village garden, and I felt
that I was more distinguished by that
circumstance that I should have been
by any epaulet I could have worn.
shoulder for a moment, while I was
hoeing in a village garden, and I felt
that I was more distinguished by that
circumstance that I should have been
by any epaulet I could have worn.
(Henry David Thoreau)