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April 12, 2008 - A nice adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW is at our feeders today, and it is quite aggressive, chasing other sparrows away like crazy! This makes me think it's a new individual, because the one that was here 2-3 days ago was a wimp, allowing other sparrows to keep it away a lot. This white-crowned sparrow has the white stripe on the side of its head end at the eye, so that the lores is/are not white; thus it seems to fit the Nat. Geogr. guide's leucophrys subspecies, i.e. of eastern Can. tundra, but I'm puzzled by the quite different patterns shown by Sibley, who also uses different terminology for the races. Also the CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW continues here. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Thoreau
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