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A small, freely-moving projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds (and a few non-avian dinosaurs)—a bird's "thumb"—the word is Latin and means 'winglet'; it is the diminutive of ala, meaning 'wing'. Alula typically bear three to five small flight feathers, with the exact number depending on the species.
The white-crowned sparrow is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. [5] It has been sighted in England, Scotland, [5] [6] Ireland, [7] and Norway. [8] In 2008 a white-crowned sparrow was spotted in Cley next the Sea in Norfolk, England. [9] To commemorate the event an image of the bird was included in a window at St Margaret's Church.
The chipping sparrow lays a clutch of two to seven pale blue to white eggs with black, brown, or purple markings. They are about 17 by 12 millimetres (0.67 by 0.47 in), and incubated by the female for 10 to 15 days. [7] The chipping sparrow is often brood parasitized by brown-headed cowbirds, usually resulting in the nest being abandoned. [6]
White-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forster, JR, 1772) 70 Golden-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia atricapilla (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 71 Harris's sparrow: Zonotrichia querula (Nuttall, 1840) 72 White-throated sparrow: Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 73 Sagebrush sparrow: Artemisiospiza nevadensis (Ridgway, 1874) 74 Bell's sparrow
Black-crowned sparrow-lark; ... Chipping sparrow; Chiribiquete emerald; ... Lesser whistling duck; Lesser white-fronted goose; Lesser whitethroat;
British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings daddy longlegs, daddy-long-legs crane fly: daddy long-legs spider: Opiliones: dead (of a cup, glass, bottle or cigarette) empty, finished with very, extremely ("dead good", "dead heavy", "dead rich") deceased
Lark sparrow, Chondestes grammacus (A) Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina; Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida (A) Orange-billed sparrow, Arremon aurantiirostris; White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys (A) White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis (A) Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus (A) Savannah sparrow, Passerculus ...
Most of the species are known as sparrows, but these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae. Many of these have distinctive head patterns. Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina (A) Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida (A) White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys (A)