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The main call of the White-throated Sparrow is a sharp, explosive, chink, often given by an agitated bird with crown feathers raised, flicking its tail. It’s an alarm call often given near a nest or when a predator or other threat has been spotted.
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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/soun...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/sounds
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The female White-throated Sparrow builds a cup nest of coarse grasses on the ground along forest edges and where scrubby growth predominates. From 4 to 6 pale blue eggs blotched with chestnut red are incubated by the female for up to two weeks.
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www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/wtsparrow.htm
www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/wtsparrow.htm
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first nesting record for the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) in western Pennsylvania was made when I found a nest containing 2 eggs in ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/4159938
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Nesting of the White-throated Sparrow in West Virginia.--A considerable south- ward extension of the known breeding range of this species, ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/4158246
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The white-throated sparrow also finds seeds hidden in grasses and weeds. Zonotrichia albicollis also feed on wild fruits from blackberry tangles, shrubbery, and insects when available and feed young in the nest almost exclusively insects.
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informatio...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Zonotrichia_albicollis.html
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Listen to a white-throated sparrow sing ... White-throated sparrow egg; Female white morph sitting on her nest incubating the eggs. ... Nestlings at hatching; Begging white-throated sparrow nestlings...
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mama.indstate.edu/whitethroatedsparrow/middleschool.php
mama.indstate.edu/whitethroatedsparrow/middleschool.php
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.--The first nesting record for the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) in western Pennsylvania was made when I found a nest containing 2 eggs in McKean County on 13 July 1968. Todd (Birds of western Pennsylvania, 1940) recorded summer sight records from 1929 to 1937 at Hearts Content in Warren County,
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elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v082n01/p0102-p0103.html
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On 5 June 1971 I found a White-throated Sparrow nest in a 20-foot fallen spruce that lay across a little-used trail in a dry, fairly open area 1 mile southwest of T Lake Falls in Hamilton County, New York.
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elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v090n03/p0678-p0678.html
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The White-throated Sparrow has two color morphs that are equally represented in the population- ... Either sex can be white-striped or tan-striped, but they usually pair with a member of the other color morph. Pairs of tan-striped females and white-striped males nest in more open forest and forest edge areas.
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