American Tree Sparrow
© Alexis Hayes
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What they eat: American Tree Sparrows eat seeds, berries, and insects. They prefer millet and peanut hearts at platform and ground feeders. |
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Where they live: These birds prefer to live in open woodlands, and tundra. While breeding, they occur in northern Canada and Alaska; during the non-breeding season, they live in the northern U.S. and very southern Canada. |
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Did you know? American Tree Sparrows need to take in a third of their weight in food and water or else their body temperature and weight will drop drastically in one day. |
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How they sound: Their call, a musical twitter, sounds like teel-wit or teedle-eet. |
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