Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: BetCrooks on September 18, 2015, 02:40:07 PM

Title: Young Sparrow
Post by: BetCrooks on September 18, 2015, 02:40:07 PM

Is this just a Song Sparrow? It's a bit different than the other ones in the same area but I've heard they can be quite variable.

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Title: Re: Young Sparrow
Post by: cairnstone on September 20, 2015, 09:27:54 AM

The buffy coloured face and thin streaks on the breast point to Lincoln's Sparrow for me. Hopefully someone else here can confirm.

Title: Re: Young Sparrow
Post by: BC on September 21, 2015, 05:55:00 PM

I thought I had ID'd a Lincoln's (from a photo) earlier this summer in another forum but I was wrong. An expert weighed in and pointed out the size of the bill. It was a juvenile Song and they certainly are variable. The stout bill of the Song, though, is quite different from the slender bill of the Lincoln's although so many other field marks are similar and the photo quality is always a factor. I believe this is a Song but the Lincoln's are starting to come through.