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Not all streaky brown birds are impossible to identify: Take a closer look at this one and you’ll see an understated but distinctive sparrow with a short tail, small head, and telltale yellow spot before the eye. Savannah Sparrows are one of the most numerous songbirds in North America, and while sometimes overlooked, are likely visitors across the continent. In summer, they don’t hesitate to advertise their location, belting out a loud, insect-like song from farm fields and grasslands.
Size & Shape
Savannah Sparrows are medium-sized sparrows with short, notched tails. The head appears small for the plump body, and the crown feathers often flare up to give the bird’s head a small peak. The thick-based, seed-eating bill is small for a sparrow.
Color Pattern
Savannah Sparrows are brown above and white below, with crisp streaks throughout. Their upperparts are brown with black streaks, and the underparts are white with thin brown or black streaks on the breast and flanks. Look for a small yellow patch on the face in front of the eye.
Behavior
Savannah Sparrows eat seeds on or near the ground, alone or in small flocks. When flushed, they usually fly up, flare their short tails, and circle around to land some yards away. In spring and summer, males sing their dry, insect-like melodies from exposed, low perches such as fenceposts. Also, listen for a thin, high-pitched tsss call.
Habitat
Savannah Sparrows breed in open areas with low vegetation, including most of northern North America from tundra to grassland, marsh, and farmland. Even in winter, you’ll find Savannah Sparrows on the ground or in low vegetation in open areas; look for them along the edges of roads adjacent to farms.
Cool Facts
•The Savannah Sparrow’s name sounds like a nod to its fondness for grassy areas, but this species was actually named by famed nineteenth century ornithologist Alexander Wilson for a specimen collected in Savannah, Georgia.
•Raising young is hard work: a female Savannah Sparrow must gather 10 times her weight in food to feed herself and her young during the 8 days they are in the nest.
•The "Ipswich Savannah Sparrow," a subspecies that breeds on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, is nearly 50 percent heavier than most other Savannah Sparrow subspecies. It is the palest race, and is found in winter in sand dunes along the Atlantic Coast. It was formerly considered a separate species.
•In many parts of the species' range, especially in coastal areas and islands, Savannah Sparrows tend very strongly to return each year to the area where they hatched. This tendency, called natal philopatry, is the driving force for differentiation of numerous Savannah Sparrow subspecies.
•The oldest known wild Savannah Sparrow was at least 6 years, 10 months old.
Measurements
Both Sexes
Length
4.3–5.9 in
11–15 cm
Wingspan
7.9–8.7 in
20–22 cm
Weight
0.5–1 oz
15–28 g
Relative Size
About the size of a Song Sparrow.
Other Names
•Bruant des prés (French)
•Gorrión zanjero, Sabanero (Spanish)
Food
During the breeding season, Savannah Sparrows eat nutritionally rich insects and spiders. They stalk through grassy areas or along beaches in search of beetles, grasshoppers, and other bugs, as well as spiders, millipedes, and pillbugs, snapping them up in their bill and swallowing them whole. When white frothy spittle masses appear on goldenrod plants, Savannah Sparrows hop up on the plant and devour the spittlebug nymphs inside the foam. On their winter range, Savannah Sparrows switch to a diet of mostly small seeds from grasses and forbs. Along coastal areas, they may eat tiny crustaceans.
Nest Description
The female builds the nest in one to three days. The nest is about 3 inches across and composed of two parts: an exterior of coarse grasses and in the middle, a finely woven tiny cup of thin grass. This inner cup is about 2 inches across and 1 inch deep.
Nest Placement
Savannah Sparrows hide their nests amid a thick thatch of the prior season’s dead grasses in densely vegetated areas. The nest is usually on the ground or low in grasses, goldenrod, saltmarsh vegetation, or low shrubs such as blueberry, blackberry, rose, and bayberry. The female selects the nest site, often choosing a spot on the edge of her mate’s territory, thus forcing him to defend new areas and causing conflict with a neighboring male.
Nesting Facts
Clutch Size
2–6 eggs
Number of Broods
1-4 broods
Egg Length
0.6–0.9 in
1.5–2.2 cm
Egg Width
0.6–0.6 in
1.4–1.6 cm
Incubation Period
12–13 days
Nestling Period
8–13 days
Egg Description
Pale greenish, bluish, tan, or white, with speckles and streaks. Colors vary greatly, sometimes even within clutches.
Condition at HatchingNaked with yellow-orange skin; the eyes open in four or five days.
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O'Leary, Patrick THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD, Tor, 3/03, (There is a place—a world—where famine and poverty do not exist. Nor sickness nor misery nor unhappiness of any kind. Is it Heaven? As two brothers are about to discover, it’s more like Hell)
EXPEDITION IMPOSSIBLE - "A Blind Man's Nightmare" - Beat down and battered by Stage 4's High Atlas Mountains, The California Girls struggle to rappel 300 feet down a dangerous waterfall, Eric from No Limits wades waist-deep through a treacherous river canyon they've coined "blind man's purgatory," and the Football Players bare it all to master the Moroccan art of Henna, on "Expedition Impossible," THURSDAY, JULY 21 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Gilles Mingasson/ABC via Getty Images)
THE COUNTRY BOYS, THE COPS, FAB 3, THE GYPSIES, CALIFORNIA GIRLS, THE FISHERMEN, NY FIREMEN, NO LIMITS
Mendoza ha tenido y tiene grandes boxeadores a nivel mundial y la mayoría de ellos empezaron a entrenar en el humilde gimnasio "Miguel Ángel Firpo".
Mendoza had and has great boxers internationally known, most of them started training at this humble gym, the "Miguel Ángel Firpo".
1" x 1.5" custom toothpick flags on 10cm toothpick. FDA approved for food contact. Printed on matte coated paper.
Berlin urban art. Camera: Polaroid SX-70 with Impossible Project PX 70 Color Shade Cool film and ND filter.
A piece of the pie on one of our Moderntone depression glass plates. Taken by Ron. When we were clearing out my mother's house in 2005, one of the things we found was an Eastern Star cookbook. I called Shirley, one of Mother's Eastern Star friends, and offered to donate the book to Mother's chapter. Shirley said that would be great. Before I sent the cook book to her, I copied some of the recipes. There were three recipes in the book for "impossible pie" (a type of pie that does not have a crust you roll out...it forms a sort of crust as you bake it). None of them was completely satisfactory, so I compiled a recipe using portions of the three in the book. This was not only the first time I have ever made an "impossible pie", I think it is the first time I have ever eaten any. We think it turned out quite well, and it was very tasty (even if I say so myself).
Opening of "Instant Connections | A Polaroid themed exhibition" at Panopticon Gallery in Boston. Shot with Polaroid Sun 660 and Impossible Project PX600 UV+.
Design Insights XLV
What do you see when you close your eyes and imagine the ancient past? Visions of golden ornamentation and impossibly captured poses rendered in crisp statuary are likely to abound in your mind's eye. But what can you glean of the background; the setting in which all the trappings and fine objects are placed? You might not have a specific landmark in mind, but it's likelier than not that the surrounding architecture assumes a platonic likeness, which can be distilled to those two most primal elements, the circle and the square.
The Pantheon in Rome is one of the most enduringly iconic landmarks of antiquity and is certainly the most well-preserved large building of its time. It has succeeded on several fronts: most obviously in its remarkable durability, but also in its unrivaled structural innovations, and most importantly, I would argue, its transcendent harmonizing of the circle and the square. We find these ideal forms at the very foundation of every found object, every work of art and every architectural plan across every culture in recorded history.
It should come as no surprise then, that the Pantheon is at the very top of my own list of all-time favorite structures ever built! My relatively reticent approach toward superlatives never stood a chance when I walked through the ancient doors of the portico for the first time in 2019. It's the quintessential interlocking of the two most basic elements of design, echoing across time and a lofty interior vault, that does it for me. I can think of no better way to introduce my interpretation of the Pantheon in the latest Design Insights post, available now to all my patrons (not just the usual Corinthians).
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
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Impossible image nowdays... a view from the Ex-World Trade Center, New York, N.Y.
Una imagen ya imposible... vista desde el ex-World Trade Center, Nueva York. ... vista desde el ex-World Trade Center.
Hay hoy en este país un sector con mucha prensa que reclama por la pobreza, que es el mismo que contribuyó a crearla, que hace poco tiempo bregaba por reprimirla violentamente y que sin duda, con más poder, la acrecentaría. Obvias paradojas de la hipocresía, oxímoron lógico que nos remonta a antiquísimas metáforas, como “el lobo disfrazado de cordero” etc., estrategia que ya aburre bastante por lo burdo de su expresión y contenido.
Spy Pond was frozen over solidly enough for skating and ice biking.
I rode right down the boat ramp and onto the pond, and had a chance to see the Minuteman bikeway--a route I've ridden literally hundreds of times, if not thousands--from a whole different point of view. Fixed gear and studded tires are a good thing.
Shot with a Zeiss Ikon Contessamatic on Efke KB100, then souped in 1:9 Sprint for 11 minutes at 18 deg. C.