White-crowned Sparrow

Roof Sammer ( Zonotrichia leucophrys )

The roof Sammer ( Zonotrichia leucophrys ) is an American Singvogelart.

Features

Full-grown roof Sammern are about 18 cm long and are characterized by black and white stripes on the upper head. The rest of the head and the chest are gray, the feathers on the top is brown striped. Roof Sammern have a long brown tail. The beak is either pink or yellow. These birds are easily confused with the White-throated Sparrow, but missing the roof Sammern About yellowish eye-streak and the white spot on the neck.

Reproduction

Sammern roof hatch in the bushes, hedges and thickets in northern Canada and the western United States. In her nest, which is located close to or on the ground under bushes, the birds lay 3-5 brown - speckled gray or green - blue eggs.

Subspecies

The five currently known subtypes of roof Sammer ( pugetensis, gambelii, nuttalli, oriantha, and leucophrys ) differ in migratory behavior and breeding population. While the nuttalli subspecies remains permanently in California, draws the Gambel's subspecies during the summer months to breed up to the Arctic Circle. In general, the northern living birds of the roof Sammern overwinter in the southern United States. Very rarely, the bird lost to Western Europe.

Behavior

This bunting is looking at the ground in thickets for insects and seeds, but occasionally hunts in short flights in the air after insects. The birds look in the winter together in small flocks for food.

The reputation of the roof Sammer has many dialects, the sounds of Pugetensis subspecies similar to "You can not come and catch me! " ( You can not catch me).