April 18, 2008

Leucistic Fox Sparrow

Filed under: birds, photo — matt goff @ 12:34 pm

Leucistic Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)

Jen Cedarleaf provided these photos of a Leucistic Fox Sparrow she’s been seeing this week on Alice Island.
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Leucistic Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)
Leucistic Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)

Despite the unusual coloring, I’m pretty confident it’s a Fox Sparrow due to the shape of the head, the lack of any suggestion of stripes on the face, and chevrons rather than stripes on the chest. Jen said it behaved more like a Fox Sparrow than a Song Sparrow (the other most likely alternative) as well.

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