field sparrow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of field sparrow
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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I’ve gone whole winters without seeing a field sparrow in the New Orleans vicinity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012
In the song sparrow, field sparrow, chipping sparrow, and the fox sparrow the male and female are very nearly alike in color.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker
The tree sparrow has a parti-coloured bill, the upper-half black, the lower yellow with a black tip, while the chippy has an entirely black bill, and the field sparrow a flesh-coloured or pale-red one.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
He varies his tune freely, but always within a pretty narrow compass; as is true, also, of the field sparrow, with whom, as I soon came to feel, he has not a little in common.
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Bradford Torrey
The tree sparrow, song sparrow, chipping sparrow, field sparrow and snowbird or junco are all great weed-seed destroyers.
From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Mary Huston Gregory
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