ML251232931
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Small, Spizella type sparrow similar in size to Chipping Sparrow. Whitish on entire underparts, with bold white malar framed by thin dark borders, plain buff-brown lores, dark post-ocular streak, brownish cheek, dark streaked crown with messy, white central crown streak. Upperparts light brown and black streaked on back; rump plain brownish; tail gray-brown and slightly notched. Bill pinkish with blackish culmen; legs pale (pinkish?); eye dark. Sang from near tops of two different cedar trees about 10 meters high. Song perch was inside vegetation below top. Also sang a few times from lower branches of tall, shady maple tree; this was during foraging time. The bird also sang from lower utility wires. Lastly, the bird sang from a row of shrubs immediately next to the roadside, perching on the back side facing a field and then flew to low tree at field edge by tall pine woodland and sang there (these two sites on north side of road). I followed this bird around and its only interaction was with a Chipping Sparrow that was also singing in this area. This bird was reported by Emma White, who says she first heard the bird singing on 15 July and then again on 22 July this year. This may be the first summertime record of Clay-colored Sparrow in Kennebec County.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone Xs
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME-66
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 17.58 MB