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SONG SPARROW
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1980
No. 27 Song Sparrow
Length 614 inches
This Sparrow, in its varying forms, is perhaps
the most widely distributed and most abundant of
all our native birds. It is very hardy and prolific,
and exhibits a wonderful power of adaptability,
for it is equally at home in many different envi-
ronments.
The Song Sparrow is one of Natu s optimists
and may be heard singing somewhere, every day in
the year. It often sings on bright, sunny zero
mornings, when the ground is codered with snow,
just as cheerily as when alder patkins sway over
the brooks in springtime. It may even break forth
in snatches of song at any hour of the night. This
well-loved Sparrow is a vers friendly and sociable
bird, and may readily he Oracted about the home
by the provision of food and desirable nesting
sites. It is very fond ofthickets and briar patches
usually not to be found far from such situations.
The nest is either on the ground or in bushes,
and is made of grasses, dead leaves and rootlets
lined with finer material. Four or five eggs are
laid, bluish-white and finely speckled with brown.
Classification: Order Passeres. Family Fringillide.
Scientific name: Melospiza melodia melodia.
Range: Greater part of North America. More than
twenty geographic races have been described; the eastern
race is found east of the Rocky Mountains.
in the vicinity ok lakes
No. 27 from set of 50 Winter Birds of the Northeastern United
States. Published by the National Association of Audubon So-
cieties, 1974 Broadway, New York City. Price per set, in a box,
$1.00 post paid.
