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Swamp Sparrow -
(Melospiza georgiana)
 

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Identification

  • Small brown songbird
  • Striped back
  • Grey face, grey chest
  • Grey eye stripe
  • White throat, white belly
  • Rusty reddish crown
  • Rufous wings
  • Beak has yellow base
  • 5-5.75" (13 cm.)

Habitat

  • Wetlands, shrubby areas

Additional Information

  • Common migrant and summer resident
  • Song --musical trill
  • Submerges head to catch aquatic
         invertebrates
  • Has longer legs than most sparrows
         for wading
  • KVR Breeding bird

Swamp Sparrow standing on cattails at teh water line

Swamp Sparrow singing atop a branch

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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