Lincoln's Sparrow
Melospiza lincolnii
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-5 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Freshwater wetland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
A shy streaky-brown sparrow named for the amateur naturalist who first collected it, John James Audubon's companion Thomas Lincoln. It delivers a surprisingly bubbly, wren-like warbling song from dense willow thickets and boggy meadows.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- Genus
- Melospiza
- Species
- Melospiza lincolnii