The Clay-colored Sparrow is a pale, sandy sparrow of the northern Great Plains with an unusual mechanical song — an insect-like series of flat buzzes given from the top of a bush. The pale face with a dark malar stripe and contrasting brown cheek patch bordered by white are distinctive. It is very common in the shrub-grasslands of the northern Plains and winters in Mexico.
Habitat
Shrubby grasslands and prairie edges from the northern Great Plains westward
Diet
Seeds and insects from ground and low shrubs
How common
Common
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