‘ IRD HONOGRAPHS : 
     
    
   
   
    
     PASSIFORMES 
     
    
   
   
    
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     by Donald Wilkinson 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHIPPING SPARROW (Spizella passerina) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Species: 28-55—071 
     
    
   
   
    
     Family: EMBERIZIDAE - Buntings, Sparrows, and Allies 
     
    
   
   
    
     Distribution: Widespread across Canada from Alaska south of the tree line to Newfoundland 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and south throughout most of the U.S.A. except around northern Texas and western 
     
     Kansas and Oklahoma. Winters across southern U.S.A. to northern Nicaragua. 
     
    

    
     A small cup of dead grass, weed stems, and rootlets lined with fine grasses and 
     
     hairs, on limb of spruce, pine, or cedar, also in orchard trees usually up to 6 
     
     feet above the ground. Uses open grassy woodlands, forest clearings, shores of 
     
     lakes, ponds, and larger streams and rivers, cottonwood groves, gardens, 
     
     orchards, and farmyards. 
     
    

    
     Usually 4; pale blue—green, speckled, spotted, blotched and scrawled with browns, 
     
     dark blue, and black. 
     
    

    
     Mainly grass seeds and seeds of clover, ragweed, dandelion, and others; also 
     
     various beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, bugs, ants, spiders, and wasps. 
     
     Visit’s bird tables, even hands. 
     
    

    
     A long series of "chips" rapidly repeated to sound like a thrill all at one 
     
     pitch. Sometimes sings at night. 
     
    

    
     13 to 20 cm (5 to 5.75 inches).