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ADVENTURE & WILDLIFE
House Sparrow - Female
Full-bodied bird of urban environments with a stout bill.
Females are a plain buffy-brown overall with dingy gray-
brown underparts. Their backs are noticeably striped with
buff, black and brown House Sparrow - Non Breeding Male
Nonbreeding males are streaked brown, black and buffy
above and dingy below. They lack the bright chestnut neck
and extensive black bib of breeding males. Note yellowish
bill on nonbreeding birds.
Black - throated Sparrow Adult
Black throated Sparrows have a white eyebrow and
mustache stripe not seen on House Sparrows. Harris’s Sparrow - Nonbreeding Adult
Harris’s Sparrows have a plain brown face, without the
male House Sparrow’s white cheeks and chestnut neck
Credits
Dunne, P. (2006). Pete Dunne’s essential field guide
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Ehrlich, P. R., D. S. Dobkin and D. Wheye (1988).
The birder’s handbook. A Field Guide to the
natural history of North American birds, including all
species that regularly breed north of Mexico. Simon
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and Schuster Inc., New York, USA.
Lowther, Peter E. and Calvin L. Cink. 2006. House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus), version 2.0. In The
Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor).
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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