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| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Zonotrichia leucophrys |
Few birds possess the debonair appearance of the adult White-crowned Sparrow. The manner in which it holds itself erect, with the feathers on the back of its head slightly raised, gives it a peculiar distinction that is further heightened by the black and white stripes on its head and by its pink bill. Immatures have the black of the head replaced by rufous brown and the white replaced by light buffy brown.
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The White-crowned Sparrow breeds across northern North America and at high elevation in the Rockies, and it winters in the southern Unites States and Mexico. Fall migrants appear in Louisiana generally in October, and a few may linger as late as mid-May. The bird frequents hedgerows, overgrown pastures, and other similar situations where there are brush heaps, blackberry tangles, or any sort of thickets in the open. Immatures are seen much more frequently in Louisiana than are adults, at least until after the prenuptial molt is completed that puts the first-year birds into their first breeding plumage.
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The White-crowned Sparrow is at no time very common in Louisiana, but sometimes a small flock will take up its winter residence in a corner of a certain pasture or along one short section of a railroad right-of-way. There the flock will remain until late the following spring, when evidently the entire group departs together for some distant coniferous clearing in a faraway Canadian wilderness.
--George H. Lowery, Jr., 1974, Louisiana Birds
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| Birds of Louisiana-- more photos of Louisiana birds by LOS members accompanied by Lowery's accounts from Louisiana Birds. |
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The LOS website currently has space online for photographs, field notes, identification discussions and general messages regarding the birding activities of LOS members. Fine quality photographs are also being solicited for the BIRDS OF LA webpage. For information regarding graphical submissions, send an e-mail to DJL AT DJLphoto.com.
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  WHAT'S NEW INSIDE |
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 LOS NEWS- Spring 2013 issue. |
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| Publication Guidelines -- Journal of Louisiana Ornithology |
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| Minutes of 2012 Fall Meeting. |
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| 2012 Summer Bird Atlas Update |
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| LA CBC results - edited by Marty Floyd and Megan M. Smith |
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| Official Louisiana Field Check-list - April 2011. |
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| 2011 Louisiana Review List |
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| Text message LA rare bird alerts to LOSRBA. |
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| The Louisiana Parish Checklist Project - a project undertaken by Rosemary Seidler to produce a checklist for each of Louisiana?s 64 parishes. |
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| All-time highest individual U.S. counts from LA CBCs and from 110th CBC |
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Recent Louisiana Rarities |
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| America's Wetland Birding Trail - Loops, sites, descriptions and directions. |
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| Bird Louisiana - a bird festivals website. |
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| GUIDELINES FOR LOS GRANT REQUESTS |
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| Banding Red-tailed Hawks - notes and photos of field trip led by Bill Clark. Submitted by Dave Patton. |
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| 100 years of CBC results -- from National Audubon Society. |
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Voices From Our Past
Stephen Russell, LOS President in 1963 and 1964, recently donated a near complete set of LOS News dating back to issue No. 17, published in November 1958. Thanks to Dr. Russell, past articles and issues of particular interest can now be posted on the LOS website.
"Birding on an Oil Production Platform" by Brent Ortego, from issue No. 78, published 15 July 1977.
"The Demise of the Brown Pelican in Louisiana" by Donald Norman and Robert D. Purrington, from issue No. 55, published 15 August 1970.
"The Louisiana State List" by George H. Lowery, Jr., issue No.56, published 30 October 1970.
"The Big Gulf Watch" by Robert J. Newman, issue No.33, published 05 June 1963.
"The Nesting of Cliff Swallows" by Marshall B. Eyster, issue No. 90, published 01 October 1980.
"The LOS Yard Lists, 1991" by John Sevenair, from issue No. 146, published 02 April 1992.
A Late Fall Pelagic Bird Survey off Western Louisiana, Part II by Steven W. Cardiff, from issue No. 146, published 02 April 1992.
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 Spain 2003 -- video captures by Mark Swan. |
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 Costa Rica 2002 -- photos from Costa Rica by David J. L'Hoste. |
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 Ecuador 2001 -- photos from Galapagos Islands and Ecuador by David J. L'Hoste. |
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by Mark Swan. |
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