Birds:
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Common Name: White-crowned sparrow | ||||
| Species: Zonotrichia leucophrys | |||||
| Type: songbird. | |||||
| Description: This bird is very pretty, his colors are: black, and pink with white head stripes. It has a gray face and underparts, brown wings with long tail. The males and females are similar. It is about 5.75 inches long. Juveniles are streaked on their underparts and have a brown streaked head. Immatures have a tan streaked head and no streaks on its underpart. | Habitat: woods, gardens, and parks. | ||||
| Food: This bird eats some ants, caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, bugs, and spiders. | Enemies: The white crowned sparrow’s enemies are: hawks, shrikes, and weasels. | ||||
| Range & migration: this bird goes short distances to migrant. They breed in northern areas and along the west coast, this bird only visits the rest of Canada, Washington, Alaska, and other parts more as it passes though on it is spring or fall migration. It is a permanent resident along the Pacific Coast of Canada and the United States. | Reproduction: The males are usually the first to arrive on the breeding grounds. Females incubate the eggs for 12 days. The female is responsible for turning the eggs. When first born, the young birds are naked except for a few down feathers along some tracks on their transparent pink bodies. They stay inthe nest 7-12 days and are fed by both parents. They have 2-4 broods a year (1 a year in the north). The sparrows are mostly monogamous. | ||||
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