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Bird of the Month November 2021

Brewer's sparrow

A somewhat nondescript sparrow with a distinct thin eye-ring, pale brownish ear coverts outlined by a thin dark border, and with pale eyebrow and lores above and below the ear.  Adult has clear pale front. A shy bird of meadows, sagebrush, and fallow farm fields, but easily identified in finer weather by its meandering tinkling song which seems to go on, and on, and on...