I went birding with my friend Howard Horvath and several other friends on Wednesday, an outing we do about every week. Howard, who has birded all over the world, mentioned that I had forgotten the only other Zonotrichia sparrow, the Rufus-collared Sparrow. So I did some research and may have discovered my favorite sparrow! I find this little guy to be a stunning bird. I would love to hear him sing because typically Zonotrichia sparrows have wonderful songs. The range of this bird is southern Mexico all the way to the tip of South America, Terra del Fuego. This is mostly neo-tropical habitat so Howard speculates that the reason we don’t see an occasional vagrant here in North America may be the separation of a fairly large arid desert between the tropics and this continent. So of course I had to add the final bird to the Zonotrichia illustration that I started on Monday.
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