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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow summer adult

General Description: Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina) are monomorphic, but they have winter and summer plumages. All have a clear, gray breast and gray face, a black eyeline, and a white eyebrow line. During summer, they have a red crown, but during winter, the crown is finely streaked. Sexes alike. Juveniles have fine head streaks and heavily streaked breasts.

Taxonomy: Passeriformes, Emberizidae.

Favored Habitat: Desert scrub during winter, mountains during summer.

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow winter adult

Where to Find: During winter around Las Vegas, look for Chipping Sparrows in the desert scrub (e.g., Red Rock Canyon NCA, Lake Mead NRA) where they are common; and during summer, look up on Mt. Charleston where they breed.

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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) If you were a summer bug or a juicy seed, this might be the last face you'd ever see!
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow in early spring developing summer red cap
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow in early spring developing summer red cap
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow winter adult
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow winter adult
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow juvenile
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrow juvenile
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Chipping Sparrows at a drinker
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Taking a bath in a mountain spring
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Adult Chipping Sparrow in breeding plumage in a ponderosa pine
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Adult Chipping Sparrow in a singleleaf pinyon pine
Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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