Image: SKbird3

Description: A Bird photographed on the South Saskatchewan River bank near the Mendel Art Gallery inside the city of Saskatoon Note orange bill, Pale belly, white wing stripes, orange neck band, Speckled head, orange eye bands, same bird as SKBird2.jpg (no hyphen) With some help from Roy W, a biology graduate, this bird compares to an immature Harris's sparrow Zonotrichia querula, which also has a pink (orange) bill. Alabama Govt S Dakota birds Talk About Wildlife - first year winter bird USGS ON ornithologists Oklahoma It does not match my first queries for Harris's Sparrow which show the mature species All about Birds Bird Web [1] [2] [3] [4] SK birder - bird in "breeding plumage" Similar but not quite right sparrows.... The colour of bill is wrong, but the striping is similar to a Savannah Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis e-Bird SK Cornell Lab of Ornithology [5] The colouring of stripes is wrong, but the bill is a similar colour White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
Title: SKbird3
Credit: Own work
Author: SriMesh
Permission: Julia Adamson, photographer in the Saskatoon area.
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