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Index of Subjects Hi Jan, My books show no visible differences in gender. Stokes "A Guide to Bird Behaviour" says, "You must use a variety of behavioural clues, such as the fact that only the male sings, and only the female builds the nest, incubates, and broods." This book also says to look for the nest in small evergreen shrubs near buildings - eg. foundation plantings. I remember on the Hant's country field trip last year we found a nest in a small deciduous shrub near a building at Smiley's Park. Lois Codling jan foley wrote: > > A beautiful bright chipping sparrow is still here at my window > feeder this a.m. Very accommodating as my face near the window > doesn't dissuade his enthusiastic feeding. I'm still marvelling, > as this one is my first, at the beautiful markings on its face the > vividness of the rufous crown..can you tell me what I would look > for to determine gender? > > Jan Foley > Head of Jeddore > > */Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>/* wrote: > > Yesterday morning, Apr. 28th, we had a lovely bright Chipper. > Haven't > seen it again yet. This is probably a different bird from the > earlier > one we had (Apr. 9, 11, 19), which was in winter plumage. It > couldn't > have molted into breeding plumage that fast, could it? > Lois Codling > L. Sackville > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email > the boot with the *All-new Yahoo! Mail * > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40705/*http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/780 - Release Date: 29/04/2007 6:30 AM >
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