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chipping sparrow

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chip·ping sparrow (chpng)
n.
A small North American sparrow (Spizella passerina) having a reddish-brown crown.
chipping sparrow
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
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Noun1.chipping sparrowchipping sparrow - small North American finch common in urban areas
Spizella passerina
New World sparrow - sparrow-like North American finches
genus Spizella, Spizella - chipping sparrow; field sparrow; tree sparrow


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And there was the tree that had dropped most of its leaves but was loaded with chipping sparrows.
EVERY BEAK COUNTS IN CENSUS BIRDERS TRAMP THROUGH REGION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Populations of other birds, such as chipping sparrows, decreased, the researchers report in the August CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
Banning deer boosts migratory birds by Science News
They found many of the same species as did the Stausses, plus bluebirds, Oregon juncos, white-crowned sparrows, chipping sparrows, golden-crowned sparrows, black phoebes and Say's phoebes, Nuttall's woodpeckers, red-tailed hawks, ruby-crowned kinglets, a phainopepla, California thrashers, titmice, red-shafted flickers, a turkey vulture and others.
TAKING A REAL GANDER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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