Henslow's sparrow
Ammodramus henslowii
Identification Tips:
- Length: 4.5 inches
- Large, conical bill
- Large, flat head
- Short tail
- Olive face
- Two dark "whiskers"
- Buffy streaked breast and sides
- White belly and undertail coverts
- Narrow, whitish crown stripe
- Rusty wing coverts
- Dark and light streaking on back
- Sexes similar
- Juvenile plumage (Summer, sometimes Fall) similar to adult but has fine
streaks confined to sides of breast
- Found in open fields with tall herbaceous vegetation
Similar species:
The Henslow's Sparrow can be told from other sparrows by its olive face and
rusty wings.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.