Passerella iliaca | Sitka Nature https://www.sitkanature.org On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:10:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-raven_trees_watermark_8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Passerella iliaca | Sitka Nature https://www.sitkanature.org 32 32 20990835 Leucistic Fox Sparrow https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/2008/04/18/leucistic-fox-sparrow/ https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/2008/04/18/leucistic-fox-sparrow/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:34:12 +0000 http://www.sitkanature.org/?p=2542 Jen Cedarleaf provided these photos of a Leucistic Fox Sparrow she’s been seeing this week on Alice Island. 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 ... Read more

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

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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