White-throated Sparrow Images

White-throated Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Zonotrichia albicollis

  • White-throated Sparrows are medium sized sparrows with plain gray under and upperparts, have bright, white throats, black and white striped crowns with yellow spots between their eyes and bills.
  • White-throated Sparrows are seen in two morphs, white-crowned and tan-crowned. Those morphs persist because they almost always mate with a bird of the opposite morph.
  • White-throated Sparrows are migratory. They breed from the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada south to Minnesota, Pennsylvania, east to New England and Newfoundland. White-throated Sparrows spend winters in much of the eastern U.S. and in smaller numbers, in southwestern states. Their preferred habitats include brushy and semi-open mixed woods. In winter they are found in wood lots, gardens, scrub lands, and backyards.
  • White-throated Sparrows eat seeds and insects, along with leaf buds of maples, oaks, and crabapple trees in early spring. They come readily to bird feeders.
  • White-throated Sparrows lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 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.
  • White-crowned Sparrows can live to be more than 14 years old.

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