Spizella pusilla ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: EMBERIZIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
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The Field Sparrow is a common, drab sparrow of brushy pastures and old fields. It has a simple, yet distinctive song of repeated clear whistled notes on one pitch that increase in rate until they make a trill.
Song a series of clear whistled notes, increasing in rate until they become a trill, much in the same pattern as a bouncing ball.