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A photo of a Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida)
Clay-colored Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow

Spizella pallida

The clay-colored sparrow or clay-coloured sparrow (Spizella pallida) is a small New World sparrow of North America. Adults have light brown upperparts and pale underparts, with darker streaks on the back. They have a pale crown stripe on a dark brown crown, a white line over the eyes, a dark line through the eyes, a light brown cheek patch and brown wings with wing bars. The short bill is pale with a dark tip and the back of the neck is grey; they have a long tail. Non-breeding adults and immature resemble chipping sparrows and Brewer's sparrows; they often form flocks with these birds outside the nesting season. Their 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. These birds migrate in flocks to southern Texas and Mexico.
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Jannis Raatz
Monday 29 May 2023 - 12:38am
Canada
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Dwight Moore
Tuesday 23 May 2023 - 3:09pm
United States
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Josh Stewart
Sunday 21 May 2023 - 7:14pm
United States
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Dannie Działo
Tuesday 16 May 2023 - 2:43pm
United States
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