Sagebrush Sparrow Images

Sagebrush Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Artemisiospiza nevadensis

• Sagebrush Sparrows have soft gray heads, light to white underparts with a dark spot on the breasts, brown backs with streaks, white eye rings with a white patch in front of their eyes and a dark stripe on their throats.
• Most Sagebrush Sparrows are migratory but some are year round residents in their range.
• Sagebrush Sparrows are found in the western U.S. and Mexico on sagebrush steppes, shrubsteppe habitats, sagebrush-juniper habitats, dry shrublands, deserts, thickets and grasslands.
• Sagebrush Sparrows eat insects, spiders, seeds, small fruits and some vegetation.
• Sagebrush Sparrows lay 1 to 5 eggs which hatch in 12 to 16 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
• Sagebrush Sparrows can live to be more than 9 years of age.

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