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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[light_of_summer]

Wellllll, the map on allaboutbirds.org says that we do get nonbreeding White-Throated Sparrows, here, but I don't think I've ever spotted one that I recognized. I may have heard their song, though—the recording that I just played sounded a bit familiar.
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