Chipping Sparrow
| Spizella passerina | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows) |
Spizella passerina
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows)
This abundant and handsome little sparrow, found anywhere conifers are found, from backyards to wilderness, is a persistent singer from early spring into early summer. The dry trill is an important song to learn because so many other songs are similar, and described based on comparisons with it.
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Sound Recordings
- Breakfast in the Driftless 2024
- Northern Cardinal: 10 Songs 2024
- Morning Song, June 21 2020
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Red-eyed Vireo: 48 minutes of steady singing. 2020
- Red-eyed Vireo: 5 minutes of song 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- Chipping Sparrow: 5 songs 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Northern Flicker: 4 calls 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- Chipping Sparrow singing in the Sierras 2001