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To the Beauty of Birds

While some sparrows are hard to distinguish from each other. This is not the case with the White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys. The bold white and black steaks on the head make the mature adults easy to identify. The older immature birds lack the black and white stripes and instead have brown and white stripes that presage the later change to black and white. The younger immature birds have striped on the breast 0015.
This distinctive bird is a common inhabitant of suburban parks and gardens.

A movie of both the adult and immature birds feeding on seeds together is shown on the movie page (see www.ComingsBirds.com).

White-crowned Sparrows occur all over the United States. Half of these were photographed in our back yard, the others at the Battiste Breakfast and Birds, Hereford, AZ.

While we were photographing the Sandhill Cranes in a corn field a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys was standing in the rushes in front of us virtually insisting that I take its picture. So I did (8000 series). I hope you are happy.

White-crowned Sparrow