Grasshopper Sparrow Images

Grasshopper Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Ammodramus savannarum

• Grasshopper Sparrows are medium sized sparrows with brown streaked upperparts and white underparts. Breasts, flanks and faces are plain buff-brown. Their heads are flat with a central white stripe through a brown crown. Upper mandible is grayish, lower mandible is yellow. Most show yellow to orange above their eyes.
• Grasshopper Sparrows are migratory. They breed from British Columbia and Manitoba to New Hampshire south to California, Texas and central Florida. They winter in the southern half of the U.S. and Mexico. They are found in prairie grasslands, old weedy fields, grain fields, hayfields, pastures, and palmetto scrub.
• Grasshopper Sparrows eat mostly insects including grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, and caterpillars. They also consume spiders, snails, earthworms, and seeds.
• Grasshopper Sparrows lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of Grasshopper Sparrows can be called a plague.
• The oldest known Grasshopper Sparrow was at least nine years of age.

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