Stats

Lifespan: 2-3 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Insectivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Flock
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: North America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Common

About

The Savannah Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird found across North American grasslands and fields, named not for the habitat type but for Savannah, Georgia, where the first specimen was collected. Most populations show a distinctive yellow patch above the eye.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Passerculus
Species: Passerculus sandwichensis