driveway art: song sparrow

[asakiyume]

We have some sunny days, and I finished the job I was working on, so I drew a song sparrow. The song sparrow is found throughout most of North America, "continuous from the Aleutians to the eastern United States," says Cornell Ornithology. They're small everywhere bird with a lovely song. Both their song and their plumage varies across the continent.







Scientific name "Melospiza melodia." You can hear samples of their songs here. (The ones around here sound most like the fourth recording down.)

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[asakiyume]

We have sparrows that do the cheeping as well--house sparrows, notably, which live happily the world over. But then there are some like this guy with a nice song. For small birds with LOUD VOICES I always think of wrens. It's hard to believe such a loud voice has room to fit in such small birds. (It's a more interesting song than just CHEEP CHEEP but still, wow! so loud!)