Medium-sized sparrow with a rounded tail. Gray face and collar with a rusty cap and a dark line through the eye. Extensive reddish brown in wings. Base of bill is yellow.
Medium-sized sparrow with a rounded tail. Neat white throat contrasts with gray-washed breast. Extensive reddish brown in wings.
Gives a high metallic chink call year-round. This video has no audio.
Rusty cap and matching reddish brown wings. Neat white throat contrasts with gray face. Flanks are washed with brown.
Medium-sized sparrow with a rounded tail and extensive reddish brown in the wings. Breeding adult has a reddish crown patch and a gray face and back of the neck.
Immature and nonbreeding birds have blurry streaks on the chest and have a plain brown, not reddish brown, cap. Note the neat white throat patch.
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A medium-sized sparrow with a short, conical bill, a compact, robust body, and a moderately long tail. The overall shape is quite similar to the widespread Song Sparrow.
Slightly larger than a Chipping Sparrow, slightly smaller than a White-throated Sparrow.
sparrow-sized or smallerSwamp Sparrows in the northern and western parts of the range are lighter than those in the south and east. The "Coastal Plain" subspecies nigrescens, which breeds in the mid-Atlantic states, is more blackish in the head and nape than the other two subspecies, ericrypta of Canada and northern Minnesota and the very widespread georgiana.
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