White Throated Sparrow

 
Zonotrichia albicollis
 
Photographed January 2007, Franklin Parish, LA
 
Medium-sized sparrow with rust-brown striped upperparts, conspicuous white throat, and plain gray underparts. Head has black-and-white striped crown and yellow spots between eyes and bill. Sexes are similar, juvenile is duller.
 
Their range is from Mackenzie, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south to North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Spends winters in much of eastern U.S. and in small numbers in southwestern states.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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