Savannah Sparrow Images

Savannah Sparrow Images, Facts and Information:

Passerculus sandwichensis

  • Savannah Sparrows are small and have whitish underparts with heavily streaked breasts and sides and dark gray-brown upperparts with streaks, their heads have a brown crown and they have pale yellow to white eyelines. Usually they have a yellow wash on their lores.
  • Savannah Sparrows are migratory. Their breeding range extends from Alaska east to Labrador, as far south as Georgia in the east and central Arizona in the West. There are year round resident, breeding populations in Mexico and southern California.
  • Savannah Sparrows are found in marshes, wet meadows, salt marshes, short-grass prairies, tundra, mountain meadows, and grasslands.
  • Savannah Sparrows feed on insects, spiders and seeds.
  • Savannah Sparrows lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 10 to 13 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of sparrows can be called a “flutter”, “ubiquity”, “crew” or a “quarrel” of sparrows.
  • Savannah Sparrows can live to be more than 6 years of age.

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