Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

Photos by BarrytheBirder

The Chipping Sparrow is a small bird found in summer backyards in many areas, hopping on lawns and nesting in hedges.   Normal habitats include gardens, lawns, city parks, brushy pastures, and grassy woodland edges, where they are a familiar songbird.   Winter flocks appear to forage around woodland edges and thickets.

They breed from across Canada, south to Florida, Nicaragua and Baja California.

The Audubon Society says this bird's habit of lining its nest with hair has nick-named it the "Hairbird".    The birds once used horsehair, but with fewer use of horses, any hair will do...even strands from the coats of sleeping dogs.

Their food food consists mainly of seeds, but in summer, adults as well as young will feed on insects.

 

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