Swamp Sparrow Images

Swamp Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Melospiza georgiana

• Swamp Sparrows are small sparrows with dark-streaked brown upperparts, gray upper breasts, and pale gray, faintly streaked underparts. Their heads have rust-brown caps with paler median stripes and gray faces. Their wings are rust-brown with black-and-white streaks. They have long, pink legs.
• Swamp Sparrows are migratory. They breeds in Canada and the northern regions of eastern and central U.S. This species spends winters in the central and southeastern regions of the U.S. and south into central Mexico. Preferred habitats include freshwater marshes, wetlands, bogs, and margins along streams and ponds; also found in salt marshes.
• Swamp Sparrows eat beetles, ants, grasshoppers, crickets and seeds.
• Swamp Sparrows lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 to 15 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
• Swamp Sparrows can live to be more than 7 years of age.

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