Field sparrow Spizella pusilla

Identification Tips:

• Length: 5 inches
• Pink, conical bill
• Rusty crown and eyeline (behind eye)
• White eye ring
• Gray (Summer) or buff (Winter) face
• Buffy breast
• White belly and undertail coverts
• Tan back with dark streaks
• Brown wings with wing bars
• Slim, forked tail
• Sexes similar
• Juvenile plumage (Summer) similar to adult but duller with streaked breast

Similar species:

The pink bill, rusty crown, and white eye ring of the Field Sparrow are distinctive.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.