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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

November 25, 2010
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

This first-fall white-crowned sparrow is molting. Its head feathers show a little bit of the black-and white pattern it will grow into during the winter.

White-crowned SparrowBoth sparrow photos copyright 2010 Michael and Diane Porter

White-crowned SparrowAn adult white-crowned sparrow has two black stripes on its crown, separated by a white stripe. Like the one at left.

Young white-crowned sparrows have tan stripes, separated by a lighter, buffy stripe. The bird above is part way through the process of exchanging its juvenile plumage for adult feathers.

Adolescence. Such a time of mixed signals!

—Diane Porter

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