Today’s bird

Lincoln's Sparrow

Melospiza lincolnii

Family: New World sparrows

Lincoln's Sparrow is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.

Did you know

  1. During the breeding season, they mainly feed on arthropods including insect larvae, ants, spiders, beetles, flies, moths, caterpillars, mayflies, and others.

  2. Adults typically eat prey from higher trophic levels such as spiders, whereas they feed their chicks greater proportions of plant material and lower trophic level prey like grasshoppers.

  3. Their nest is a well-covered shallow open cup of grasses or sedges.

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