Savannah Sparrow

As was the recent Savannah Sparrow post, the bird, we found at the Nisqually wildlife refuge on 16 June 2020, is one of the small, pale western races. Erika and I discovered this sparrow during our effort to record a singing Common Yellowthroat. BirdNet, our bird song identifying app, concurred with our yellowthroat identification but indicated a Savannah Sparrow song was also present in our recording. Directly behind us, actually. Note the relatively long claws on the hind toes of this bird. Long claws are often present in ground-foraging birds.