The Thick-billed Longspur — formerly called McCown's Longspur — is a grassland sparrow of shortgrass prairies of the Great Plains. The thick, sparrow-like bill distinguishes it from the Lapland Longspur. Breeding males have a bold black chest crescent and cap. The white tail with T-shaped dark central feathers is diagnostic in flight. It was renamed in 2020 due to the Confederate past of the person it was named after.
Habitat
Shortgrass prairie and dry plains of the Great Plains
Diet
Seeds and insects from short grass
How common
Uncommon
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