Lincoln’s Sparrow Images

Lincoln’s Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Melospiza lincolnii

• Lincoln’s Sparrows are medium sized sparrows with dark-streaked olive-brown upperparts with light brown breasts with fine streaks, white bellies, and white throats. They have a brown caps with a grey stripe in the middle and olive-brown wings. Sexes are similar.
• Lincoln’s Sparrows are migratory. Their breeding habitat is wet thickets or shrubby bogs across Canada, Alaska, and the northeastern and western United States; this bird is less common in the eastern parts of its range.
• Lincoln’s Sparrows feed on seeds and insects.
• Lincoln’s Sparrows lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
• Lincoln’s Sparrows can live to be around eight years of age.

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