Brewer’s Sparrow Images

Brewer’s Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Spizella breweri

• Brewer’s Sparrows are medium sized sparrows that have pale gray underparts, finely streaked gray-brown upperparts, dark brown mustache stripes, pale eye rings and pink bills with dark tips.
• Brewer’s Sparrows are migratory. Brewer’s Sparrows are found in the Western U.S, and parts of southwestern Canada during the breeding season and the southwestern U.S and Mexico during the nonbreeding season.
• Brewer’s Sparrows preferred habitat includes alpine meadows and sagebrush.
• Brewer’s Sparrows eat beetles, ants, wasps, grasshoppers and other insects during the breeding season and during their nonbreeding season they consume grass and other seeds.
• Brewer’s Sparrows lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 11 to 13 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
• Brewer’s Sparrows can live to be more than five years of age.

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