Savannah Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:
Passerculus sandwichensis
- Savannah Sparrows are small and have whitish underparts with heavily streaked breasts and sides and dark gray-brown upperparts with streaks, their heads have a brown crown and they have pale yellow to white eyelines. Usually they have a yellow wash on their lores.
- Savannah Sparrows are migratory. Their breeding range extends from Alaska east to Labrador, as far south as Georgia in the east and central Arizona in the West. There are year round resident, breeding populations in Mexico and southern California.
- Savannah Sparrows are found in marshes, wet meadows, salt marshes, short-grass prairies, tundra, mountain meadows, and grasslands.
- Savannah Sparrows feed on insects, spiders and seeds.
- Savannah Sparrows lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 10 to 13 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
- Savannah Sparrows can live to be more than 6 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Savannah Sparrow photos.
Savannah Sparrow singing next to a road
Title: Savannah Sparrow singing next to a road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2017 […]
Adult Savannah Sparrow in the Centennial Valley of Montana
Title: Adult Savannah Sparrow in the Centennial Valley of Montana
Location: Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/5/2016
Savannah Sparrow foraging for prey
Title: Savannah Sparrow foraging for prey
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/2/2014
Savannah Sparrow stretching its wing
Title: Savannah Sparrow stretching its wing
Location: Glacier County, Montana
Date: 8/19/2012
Savannah Sparrow perched on barbed wire
Title: Savannah Sparrow perched on barbed wire
Location: Glacier County, Montana
Date: 8/19/2012
Savannah Sparrow in dried grasses
Title: Savannah Sparrow in dried grasses
Location: Glacier County, Montana
Date: 8/18/2012
Adult Savannah Sparrow with fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird
Title: Adult Savannah Sparrow with fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/20/2012
Savannah Sparrow singing on old fence rail
Title: Savannah Sparrow singing on old fence rail
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow with prey
Title: Savannah Sparrow with prey
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Fluffed up Savannah Sparrow on an old fence post
Title: Fluffed up Savannah Sparrow on an old fence post
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow fluttering its wings
Title: Savannah Sparrow fluttering its wings
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow with food
Title: Savannah Sparrow with food
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow wing stretch
Title: Savannah Sparrow wing stretch
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow on fence railing
Title: Savannah Sparrow on fence railing
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/12/2011
Savannah Sparrow in the fog
Title: Savannah Sparrow in the fog
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/19/2010
Savannah Sparrow with green background
Title: Savannah Sparrow with green background
Location: Celery Fields, Sarasota County, Florida
Date: 1/18/2009
Savannah Sparrow at the Celery Fields
Title: Savannah Sparrow at the Celery Fields
Location: Celery Fields, Sarasota County, Florida
Date: 1/14/2009