Subject: [Tweeters] Strange Golden Crowned Sparrow [Mark Neudorfer]
Date: Dec 19 19:40:10 2006
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


Mark,

According to Sibley, some winter Goldencrowns show yellow in the supraloral area as well as the crown, just like the one in your photo. Nice comparison! Thanks.

-Rolan

mark neudorfer <markneudorfer at yahoo.com> wrote:
Another request for indentification help.

Last Thursday I had a single Golden Crowned Sparrow visit my deck-rail feeder in
Edmonds. It was in breeding plummage with a central yellow crown with strong
black lateral strips on both sides.

On saturday I had a similar, but different visitor. It had three yellow stripes.
The stripes were in the location of the white stripes on a White Crowned
Sparrow. The upper bill was dusky as on the Golden Crowned Sparrow. Does anyone know what this is?

The leucistic Junco I reported earlier is showing up occassionally. It is part
of a small flock of Juncos that visits my deck-rail feeder every day.

Photos of the two sparrows are at
http://picasaweb.google.com/MarkNeudorfer/PugetSoundDec2006. The "strange" one
is captioned as "unidentified Sparrow".

Good Birding,

Mark Neudorfer

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Rolan Nelson
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