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Posted by Ken Schneider on 09:49:36 10/18/12
This is the first White-crowned Sparrow that I have seen in our local West Miramar water conservation area in the eight years I have birded the area. Not sure of the subspecies-- the nominate leucophrys subspecies is the one said to winter in Florida, but in this one the light stripe over the eye extends to the bill (pale supralorals) and it has only a dusky area between the eye and the bill (loral stripe), more characteristic of the gambelii subspecies. The bright white feather tips on its wing coverts were striking, much more noticeable than the gambelii that I was accustomed to seeing in New Mexico, and, to my eye, even brighter than those in the Chicago area.
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