Thursday, December 17, 2009

American tree sparrow

American tree sparrow
American tree sparrow

American tree sparrow is the common bird of western U.S. Its habitat includes moist deciduous woodlands and willow thickets along the streams. It is medium black and rufous-brown streaks on back, gray-brown sparrow, wings. Crown, eyestripes, flanks are rufous-brown, contrasting with gray face. It has Pale gray breast with dark central spot, rufous-brown sides. The Upper mandible of this bird is dark gray and the lower mandible is yellow.


Interesting Facts

When the land is covered with snow, they will hit tall weeds with their wings and then eat the seeds that have found on the snow. Many studies on this bird show that they watch their predators out of their left eyes.

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