Friday, June 14, 2013

96 White-throat ed Sparrow
  • A group of White-throat ed Sparrows are called a; Crew / Flutter / Meinie / Quarrel / Ubiquity.
  • Individuals almost always mate with an opposite morph.  A male with brown stripes will prefer a female  with white stripes, where a male with white stripes will prefer a female with brown.
  • It comes in two morph colors a White stripe on its crown or a brown.  This one is the White crown stripe.
  • It nests in thickets and bush.  They lay 3-6 greenish to blue eggs flecked with brown.
  • They have an interesting song with a cadence of "Oh sweet Canada, Canada, Canada."
  • This guy arived early in the spring.


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