Chipping Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:
Spizella passerina
- Chipping Sparrows are medium sized sparrows, with long tails, black-streaked backs, pale gray underparts, white throats, black lines through their eyes and they have rufous caps. During their breeding season their bills are black and during the nonbreeding season they are pink.
- Chipping Sparrows can be year round residents or migrate short distances within their range. Throughout the year they can be found in all the lower 48 states and Alaska.
- Chipping Sparrows prefer open woodlands, grasslands, forest edges, brushy pastures, gardens and parks.
- Chipping Sparrows eat insects and seeds and they prefer to feed on the ground.
- Chipping Sparrows lay 2 to 5 eggs which hatch in 11 to 14 days. The female incubates and they are monogamous. Females develop a bare patch on their abdomens that fill with fluid during the breeding season which is thought to allow the transfer of heat from their bodies to the eggs.
- A flock of Chipping Sparrows can be called a “tournament” of sparrows.
- Chipping Sparrows can live up to 10 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Chipping Sparrow photos.
Peekaboo Chipping Sparrow
Title: Peekaboo Chipping Sparrow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 10/9/2023
Immature Chipping Sparrow perched in willows
Title: Immature Chipping Sparrow perched in willows
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/3/2022
Chipping Sparrow with a tiny insect in its bill
Title: Chipping Sparrow with a tiny insect in its bill
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Spring Chipping Sparrow in breeding plumage
Title: Spring Chipping Sparrow in breeding plumage
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Chipping Sparrow with food for its chicks
Title: Chipping Sparrow with food for its chicks
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Immature Chipping Sparrow on a hawthorn branch
Title: Immature Chipping Sparrow on a hawthorn branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/1/2020
Immature Chipping Sparrow on a fence
Title: Immature Chipping Sparrow on a fence
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/1/2020
Chipping Sparrow and spring Aspen leaves
Title: Chipping Sparrow and spring Aspen leaves
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 4/29/2020
Adult Chipping Sparrow during breeding season
Title: Adult Chipping Sparrow during breeding season
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 4/29/2020
Chipping Sparrow on a Juniper
Title: Chipping Sparrow on a Juniper
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/14/2019
Chipping Sparrow perched in front of snow-capped mountains
Title: Chipping Sparrow perched in front of snow-capped mountains
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/14/2019
Chipping Sparrow on wild rose
Title: Chipping Sparrow on wild rose
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/23/2018
Chipping Sparrow perched on a rose bush
Title: Chipping Sparrow perched on a rose bush
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2018
Juvenile Chipping Sparrow with berry juice on its bill
Title: Juvenile Chipping Sparrow with berry juice on its bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2018
Juvenile Chipping Sparrow perched on a Chokecherry branch
Title: Juvenile Chipping Sparrow perched on a Chokecherry branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2018
Immature Chipping Sparrow in a Chokecherry tree
Title: Immature Chipping Sparrow in a Chokecherry tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2018
Chipping Sparrow collecting nesting materials
Title: Chipping Sparrow collecting nesting materials
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Chipping Sparrow with nesting materials
Title: Chipping Sparrow with nesting materials
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Chipping Sparrow with nesting material on the forest floor
Title: Chipping Sparrow with nesting material on the forest floor
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Adult Chipping Sparrow in breeding plumage
Title: Adult Chipping Sparrow in breeding plumage
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2017