Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

                                                                         Photos by BarrytheBirder

Chipping Sparrows are small and slim and widespread and common across southern Canada and most of the U.S.A.   But at this time of year, most will be heading further south to spend the winter in a band of U.S. states beginning in western Missouri and Texas and spreading eastward to North Carolina and the Atlantic seaboard.   A few may continue to be found in the Great Lakes region and New York..   They are normally found on lawns and in fields, woodland edges,  and pine-oak forests.   Winter adults are a little darker than summer adults.