Brown Acres - Jackson County - Oregon
Habitat : Scrub
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"White-crowned Sparrows appear each winter over much of North America to grace our gardens and favorite trails (they live in parts of the West year-round)... A migrating White-crowned Sparrow was once tracked moving 300 miles in a single night. Alaskan White-crowned Sparrows migrate about 2,600 miles to winter in Southern California." - Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
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Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Scrub
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"The large, handsome Golden-crowned Sparrow is a common bird of weedy or shrubby lowlands and city edges in winter along the Pacific coast. Though it’s familiar to many during winter, Golden-crowned Sparrows vanish for the summer into tundra and shrublands from British Columbia to Alaska, where little is known of its breeding habits. Gold-rush miners took cold comfort from this bird’s melancholy song, which seems to reflect the bleak beauty of its surroundings... This sparrow is one of the least known of our songbirds, particularly on its northern breeding grounds. It has been the subject of only a few laboratory and field studies, so most of what we know about it comes from scattered notes in scientific journals."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
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Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Scrub
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"White-crowned Sparrows appear each winter over much of North America to grace our gardens and favorite trails (they live in parts of the West year-round)... A migrating White-crowned Sparrow was once tracked moving 300 miles in a single night. Alaskan White-crowned Sparrows migrate about 2,600 miles to winter in Southern California." - Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Tags: White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys Emigrant Lake Rogue Valley Jackson County Oregon USA Mark Heatherington bird sparrow
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Brown Acres - Jackson County - Southern Oregon
Habitat : Scrub
Food : Omnivore
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
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Brown Acres - Jackson County - Southern Oregon
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