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Posted 01 October 2012 - 12:58 PM
Taken a month ago at Montezuma Swamp.
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 04:59 PM
I see a slight crest and a thin bill - how about juvenile Lincoln's Sparrow?
Seems like a good guess to me. Pretty young bird so I can't get much of a read on the plumage, but the bill shape does fit a Lincoln's.
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 09:44 PM
Where is Montezuma Swamp? Unless it's right at the north end of NY or New England, I'd have a very hard time calling this a Lincoln's, simply because they should have molted out of this plumage before they started migrating. Maybe juvenile Swamp instead?
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 11:06 PM
Montezuma Swamp is a NWR located in Central NYW about20 miles south of the Lake Ontario border, halfway between Syracuse and Rochester. Glenn
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 01:12 PM
I suppose it could be a Lincoln's, then. Are they known to nest there? For the most part, if you see sparrows in juvenile (not first-winter) plumage, it's a good sign of nearby nesting.
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