Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) | Affiliated Manuscripts | Further Data

Occurrence in Amherst & Connecticut Valley, Mass.
C19

Abundant summer resident

March - November

C20

Abundant summer resident, accidental in winter

February - November

C21

Common summer resident

April - November

Habitat
Grassy woodland edges, gardens, city parks, brushy pastures, and lawns.
Nest Materials
Nest composed of loose, dried grasses, stalks, and rootlets, and lined with animal hair and fine plant fibers
19th-20th Century Field Notes
CHIPPING SPARROW . CHIPPIE . Crown , chestnut ; back , streaked with black , bay and grayish - brown ; beneath , ashy . Length , 5 - 5 1 - 2 inches . Abundant summer resident . Earliest arrival , March 3d , ( Stearns ) ; departs in November . Raises 2 broods . Eggs 3 - 5 , greenish - blue , spotted and streaked with blackish - brown . Nest of grass , small stalks of weeds , etc . , and lined with hair , in trees and shrubs . Eggs laid from May to July . Feeds on seeds , insects and worms . Beneficial . Note , a short , sweet chirp .

—H.L. Clark, 1887

21st Century Conservation Notes

Common and widespread, numbers probably stable. Nests often parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbird.*