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World Sparrow Day 2026 And Happy First Day Of Spring

By Mia McPherson|March 20th, 2026|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Savannah Sparrows, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomlands, field, grass, grasses, Passerculus sandwichensis, Savannah Sparrow, sparrow, sparrows, tuft, winter, World Sparrow Day|

World Sparrow Day started in 2010 as a way to honor and protect House Sparrows in their native range because they are declining there.

An American Pipit on a tuft of grass

By Mia McPherson|January 25th, 2016|Categories: American Pipits, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American Pipit, feeding, foraging, grass, insects, perched, pipit, pipits, tuft, Water Pipit, winter|

This American Pipit on a tuft of grass was photographed last November at Farmington Bay WMA and was only one of what appeared to be hundreds of pipits feeding on small insects.