Savannah sparrow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Savannah sparrow
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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For comparison, he collected blood or tissue samples from living birds he had encountered over the last decade studying Savannah sparrow populations around the Bay Area for his Ph.D. thesis from the University of Montana.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
The Bay Area has seen a 90% decline in tidal marshland since the 1800s, which has reduced Savannah sparrow populations to the level that interbreeding with immigrants is affecting their unique saltwater adaptation.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
In the case of the Savannah sparrow, such outbreeding reduced adaptation to the environment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
For the bay's Savannah sparrow, a subspecies that lives in salty tidal marshes, increased immigration of its inland cousins over the past century has definitely been bad news.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
In the meadows and low wet lands the Savannah sparrow is met with, and may be known by its fine, insect-like song.
From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs
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