The Swamp Sparrow is a stocky, rusty-winged sparrow of wetlands with a gray face, rusty crown, and clean gray breast. It wades into shallow water to forage, picking insects and seeds from aquatic vegetation. Its slow, musical trill — lower and lazier than Chipping Sparrow — is a characteristic sound of cattail marshes.
Habitat
Freshwater marshes, wet meadows, and swampy thickets
Diet
Seeds, insects, and aquatic invertebrates
How common
Common
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