We immediately found a little blue heron, an infrequent visitor to the District, and scampering around the park, we also caught sight of solitary and spotted sandpipers, lots of singing blackpoll warblers, and a
swamp sparrow.
We found that local bird species most frequently infested by ticks include the low-foraging grouse, turkey, chickadee, house wren, gray catbird, brown thrasher, robin, wood thrush, hermit thrush, Swainson's thrush, veery, yellow warbler, ovenbird, northern waterthrush, Connecticut warbler, mourning warbler, common yellowthroat, goldfinch, rufous-sided towhee, field sparrow, white-throated sparrow,
swamp sparrow and song sparrow.
Couch's Kingbird (Tyrannus couchii) was observed in March and September; the Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus), was observed on the lower part of the mountain during September; two individuals of the Long-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma longirastre) were observed in March and the
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) was observed only once in June.
During the fall migration, the White-throated Sparrow (n = 32), Nashville Warbler (n = 14, Oreothlypis ruficapilla),
Swamp Sparrow (n = 14, Melospiza georgiana), and Brown Creeper (n = 14, Certhia americana) were the most frequently observed fatalities.
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana).--Woodruff (1907) deemed this species to be a common summer resident of the Chicago region, where it almost certainly nested in the floodplain marshes.
The following species were used:
swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana), Lincoln's sparrow (M.
The result was a 'robosparrow' that looked just like a male
swamp sparrow, which could flip its wings just like a live male.
1903-22 1965-87 Species (20) (23) Difference Killdeer 3-01 (20) 2-21 (21) -8 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3-26 (20) 3-29 (21) +3 Eastern Phoebe 3-17 (18) 3-22 (22) +5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3-28 (20) 4-07 (22) +10 Eastern Bluebird 2-23 (17) 2-24 (22) +1 Hermit Thrush 3-31 (18) 4-08 (21) +8 Brown Thrasher 3-27 (19) 3-25 (22) -2 Eastern Towhee 3-11 (20) 3-14 (22) +3 Chipping Sparrow 3-23 (20) 4-04 (20) +12 Field Sparrow 3-22 (20) 3-17 (22) -5 Vesper Sparrow 3-28 (19) 4-03 (20) +6 Fox Sparrow 3-01 (20) 3-11 (21) +10
Swamp Sparrow 3-19 (20) 3-22 (20) +3 Red-winged Blackbird 3-06 (19) 2-20 (22) -14 Eastern Meadowlark 2-26 (20) 2-13 (17) -13 Rusty Blackbird 3-08 (19) 3-02 (16) -6 Brown-headed Cowbird 3-11 (19) 3-11 (21) +0 Table 2.
Hill (2000) reported a possible positive, unimodal relationship between
swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) densities and L.
"Who would have thought that a
swamp sparrow song might be affected by human activity?" Peters said.
Washington, January 10 (ANI): A study on sparrows has revealed that the male
Swamp Sparrow adjusts its vocal when faced with a hostile situation.
Data was provided on bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, olive baboons, stump-tailed macaques, golden snub-nosed monkeys, brown, red-bellied and aye-aye lemurs, coyotes, dogs, gray wolves, Asian elephants, domestic pigeons, orange-winged amazons, Eurasian jays, western scrub jay, zebra finches and
swamp sparrows.
swamp sparrow - North American finch of marshy area