Savannah Sparrows Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds

Summary: Savannah sparrows are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds, by whom the National Audubon Society assists North American vulnerable wildlife.

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Savannah Finch (Fringilla savanna); female (upper) and male (lower) with red-tubed flowers of Indian, or woodland, pink-root (Spigelia marilandica) and five-petaled pink flowers of Phlox aristata; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, 1831; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 22, Plate CIX: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Savannah sparrows are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds, by whom the National Audubon Society assists North American vulnerable wildlife who abide in, access from Canada and Mexico, the United States.

The Passeriformes (from Latin passer, “sparrow” and –fōrmis “-shaped”) order’s Emberizidae (from Latin emberiza, “bunting” and Greek -ειδής, “-like”) family member annually breeds May through August. Passerculus sandwichensis (from Latin passer, “sparrow”; -culus, “little”; sandwichensis, “Sandwich Islands’”), classified by Johann Friedrich Gmelin (Aug 8, 1748-Nov. 1, 1804), cluster from Arctic America southward. They dwell in such open breeding and non-breeding habitats as bogs, bushy tundra, cultivated lands, dunes, grass islands, grasslands, meadows, pastures, prairies, salt marshes and sedges.

Female Savannah sparrows establish claw-scratched, cup-like, small, sunken-soil nests camouflaged under overhanging vegetation tufts and lined with coarse grasses, finer grasses, glassworts, hairs, rootlets and sedges.

map of geographical distribution of Savannah sparrow; orange=breeding, yellow=migration, purple=year-round, blue=non-breeding; adapted from N. T. Wheelwright and James D. Rising, "Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis," version 2.0, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Savannah sparrow mothers-to-be furnish for their nests, finished within three days, 3- to 6- or 4- to 5-egg first broods and smaller second and third clutches.

Savannah sparrow females gestate blue to dull white or green-white, marked, semi-glossy, smooth, sometimes brown- or red-washed, sub-elliptical 0.75-inch- (19-millimeter-) long, 0.59- inch- (15-millimeter-) wide eggs. They have such markings, sometimes heaviest at the larger end, as blotched, speckled, spotted patterns in brown to brown-purple to chestnut-red or in gray or lilac-white. They alone incubate their eggs for eight to 12 days, after which they implement, with their mates, ingestion and instruction schedules for their hatched, helpless newborns.

Savannah sparrows journey through Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 as August birds and, by central and Mississippi flyways, to winter grounds southward through northern South America.

recently hatched savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) nestlings next to two unhatched eggs; Hussar, Wheatland County, southern Alberta, Western Canada; Sunday, July 14, 2013, 10:31: Kati Fleming, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The altricial (from Latin alere, “to feed” via altor, “nourisher” and feminine-agent suffix -trīx, “-ess”) hatchling phase kindles dull, gray-brown down, pink mouths and yellow gapes.

Savannah sparrow nestlings learn, perhaps as 8- to 14-year-olds, the adult flight pattern that looks like undulating links before and after a square-tailed or stair-stepped series. They may manage on their own as 15-, 15-plus-day-olds, whose ground-level, year-round forages muster crustaceans, insects and small snails; summertime seeds; and wintertime berries and fruits. Their physical and sexual maturity nets them yellow eye patches; pink-white bills, feet and legs; black-brown-streaked upper-sides and black-brown-streaked, white undersides; and brown, 6.75-inch (17-centimeter) wingspans.

One subspecies of Savannah sparrows occurs as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August birds even as 17 recognized subspecies occupy northernmost North to northernmost South America.

savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) nestlings with visible pin feathers; Hussar, Wheatland County, southern Alberta, Western Canada; Monday, June 24, 2013, 09:58, image of Alberta oil field nest monitoring project: Kati Fleming, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, Passerculus sandwichensis anthinus, Passerculus sandwichensis brooksi, Passerculus sandwichensis brunnescens, Passerculus sandwichensis labradorius, Passerculus sandwichensis nevadescens and Passerculus sandwichensis oblitus subspecies present overwintering overlaps.

Overlapping overwintering ranges quarter Passerculus sandwichensis sandwichensis with the above-mentioned subspecies and with Passerculus sandwichensis savanna and the latter subspecies with Ipswich sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps). Passerculus sandwichensis atratus and Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus large-billed subspecies respectively remain in central Sinaloa and central Sonora, Mexico; and in coastal Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. Passerculus sandwichensis annulus, Passerculus sandwichensis beldingi, Passerculus sandwichensis guttatus and Passerculus sandwichensis magdalenae Belding and Passerculus sandwichensis sanctorum San Benito large-billed subspecies stay in California year-round.

Savannah sparrows, as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds, tweet buzzy, treble-trilled sit-sit-sit-sit-suh-EEEEE-say songs; down-slurred, metallic, weak tseeur flight calls; and full, sharp stip calls.

savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska Maritime; AMNWR); Chowiet Island, Semidji Islands, Kodiak Island Borough, southwestern Alaska; Sunday, July 23, 2006, 10:43: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS, Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Savannah Finch (Fringilla savanna); female (upper) and male (lower) with red-tubed flowers of Indian, or woodland, pink-root (Spigelia marilandica) and five-petaled pink flowers of Phlox aristata; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, 1831; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 22, Plate CIX: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:109_Savannah_Finch.jpg; No copyright--United States (NoC--US), via ULS (University of Pittsburgh Library System) @ https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Aaud0109; Birds of America, vol. III (1841), No. 32, Plate 160, opposite page 68, Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40383849; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8572299842/

map of geographical distribution of Savannah sparrow; orange=breeding, yellow=migration, purple=year-round, blue=non-breeding; adapted from N. T. Wheelwright and James D. Rising, "Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis," version 2.0, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World @ https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/historic/bna/savspa/2.0/introduction: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Passerculus_sandwichensis_map.svg

recently hatched savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) nestlings next to two unhatched eggs; Hussar, Wheatland County, southern Alberta, Western Canada; Sunday, July 14, 2013, 10:31, image of Alberta oil field nest monitoring project: Kati Fleming, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Savannah_Sparrow,_Passerculus_sandwichensis,_hatch_day_nestlings,_baby_birds,_with_2_eggs_in_nest_in_grass_AB_Canada.jpg

savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) nestlings with visible pin feathers; Hussar, Wheatland County, southern Alberta, Western Canada; Monday, June 24, 2013, 09:58, image of Alberta oil field nest monitoring project: Kati Fleming, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Savannah_Sparrow,_Passerculus_sandwichensis,_baby_birds_begging_in_nest,_nestlings,_AB_Canada.jpg

savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska Maritime; AMNWR); Chowiet Island, Semidji Islands, Kodiak Island Borough, southwestern Alaska; Sunday, July 23, 2006, 10:43: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS, Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/4902/; Steve Hillebrand, USFWS, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Savannah_Sparrow.jpg

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