Reader Randy Rowe of Parish recently emailed me a photo an all-white sparrow he snapped on July 4. He wrote: "I believe it's a juvenile chipping sparrow," he said, "This must be an albino.

Although David Sibley warns that many juvenile sparrows have streaked ... you'll be on your way to sparrow mastery. Chipping sparrows, white-throated sparrows and swamp sparrows are all plain ...

The chipping sparrow has a reddish crown with a white line then black line below, a unique head pattern shared by no other sparrow. On juvenile birds this feature is lacking, replaced by fine dark ...

Chipping sparrows prefer city parks and open neighborhoods with evergreen ... juveniles have a dark grayish head (July to November of the first year). Both adult and juvenile have long tails in ...

Juvenile: streaked on head and underparts. See the field sparrow. The chipping sparrow rarely overlaps in range (except in certain areas in migration), has a distinct dark eye line in any plumage ...

Most of them are the expected song sparrows, usually a few at one time, but likely adding up to many more coming in from their wild food for a short, easy snack during the day. Usually a chipping ...

When begging, juvenile male chipping sparrows (Spizella passerina) exhibit neural activity in part of the forebrain associated with learned song, the team found. And begging patterns appear in the ...