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Harris's Sparrow (9)

Zonotrichia querula

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Jan 8 2025

Details: adult, winter plummage, outside normal range

Port Perry - Feeding with juncos and Tree Sparrows on the ground. Skittish species, preferring to stay close to bushes. It will likely remain for the winter.

Date uploaded: Jan 9

Comments (4):
Chris: Terrific to see the adult. Have had some reports of immature and one sighting in Chateauguay in 1990s.
Brian Morin: Normally lingering out of place birds are immature so this was a plus. As luck would have it, on my travels in southwestern Ontario on this trip I had seen an immature three days prior.

Harris's Sparrow (9)

Zonotrichia querula

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Apr 18 2022

Details: male, molting, outside normal range

Vankleek Hill - A species that breeds in northern Manitoba, this bird was present in a yard all winter. I failed on two previous attempts to see it so after waiting a couple of hours I was happy to finally spot it. The bird was still moulting but was far along in its progression to breeding plumage. It sang for me for about an hour which in its opening was very similar to an abbreviated White-throated Sparrow song.

Date uploaded: Apr 20 2022

Comments (4):
Chris: Fabulous. I’ve only seen one ever, an immature in Chateauguay Montreal. It also took 3 trips and lots of scope work to id. That one looks great.
BrianMorin: In the end it worked out better because I got to see the plumage looking much closer to breeding colours.

Harris's Sparrow (9)

Zonotrichia querula

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

Date taken: Dec 5 2019

Details: male, immature, outside normal range

Ingleside - This bird was spotted about 10 days ago and has been tough to see but after successive trips I finally had luck today. While some migrate through Northwestern Ontario, only a very few make it further east and south each year. This was our first local bird.

Date uploaded: Dec 6 2019

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