Young Sparrow

[BetCrooks]

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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[cairnstone]

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

[BC]

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.