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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: December 28, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Henslow's Sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Henslow's Sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii, photographed on the Konza Prairie Biological Station (Riley County) in Manhattan, Kansas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Dave Rintoul, 8 July 2007 [larger view].
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
I'm at the office without any book, so I'm just going to take a stab in the dark and say it's a Lincoln sparrow, because of the headstripe.
Posted by: Russell | December 28, 2009 10:49 AM
As I usually get the sparrows wrong, the nearest I can guess is a Savannah Sparrow, broad supercilium, black moustachial stripe and white outer tail.
(although it's probably a Chipping Sparrow!!)
Posted by: Adrian | December 28, 2009 1:15 PM
I am really bad with sparrows, but my guess is a young Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii). The olivy tint around the head and reddish wings are easily seen, the the lightly streaked breast seems like what a juvenille coming into adult plummage woudl look like. Also the head seems a bit flat-ish. Plus it seems to be in a 'weedy field' habitat, which fits.
Posted by: zoo713 | December 28, 2009 4:01 PM
I'll add another vote for the Henslow's sparrow. "No other sparrow has an olive head that contrasts strongly with a brown back" (Golden Books guide to North American Birds)
Posted by: ganv | December 28, 2009 11:07 PM