Date: 7/16/25 3:49 am From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: [birders] Savannah Sparrows
If they mostly eat seeds and sometimes insects…shouldn’t we expect them around bird feeders at least sometimes? I don’t think I ever have.
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From: Allen Chartier <amazilia3...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 7:54:15 PM
To: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...>
Cc: BIRDERS@UMICH <birders...>
Subject: Re: [birders] Sparrow Talk
Savannah Sparrows are very common in open areas including agricultural fields, and airports, etc.
You should have seen Swamp Sparrows when you and Linda helped me with banding at Lake St. Clair Metropark, because I caught a lot of them there in the marsh.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...><mailto:<fkaluza...>> wrote:
As a kid, growing up in metro Detroit, the only “Sparrow” I knew about was the “English House Sparrow” which I learned much later isn’t a Sparrow at all but a Weaver Finch instead. Anyway…growing up and camping in Ontario, I got to know the White-Throated Sparrow. Gradually I learned there were Song Sparrows around my grandmother’s yard and eventually I grew up and moved to Warren along the Red Run and learned about bird migration. At least twice a year I was seeing and hearing White-Crowned Sparrows and Field Sparrows and Fox Sparrows and where I worked in Farmington Hills there were Chipping Sparrows. In the field guides there were references to others I’ve still not seen like Henslow’s Sparrows and Swamp Sparrows. Lately however, my Merlin app has been hearing some Savannah Sparrows. I’m trying to decide if I’ve been hearing these all along or are their numbers increasing around here in recent years. Just how common are Savannah’s Sparrows where you live?
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