We are pleased to announce the winner of our Monday Nature Mystery, Lisa Benoit. Please email your snail mail address and preference for a hat or tote bag to [email protected].
Congratulations to Lisa for correctly identifying this American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea). According to All About Birds, despite their name, these sparrows are actually ground-nesting and ground-foraging birds. Although the female lays only one egg per day until she's got 4 to 6 eggs (and may even skip a day between eggs), the chicks hatch within hours of each other and may not even hatch in the order their eggs were laid.
Last Week's mystery: American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea). Photo: Shari McCollough/Audubon Photography Awards
Each Monday we’ll post a new photo and identify the previous week’s winner. They’ll receive an ASNV hat or tote bag.
Be sure to post your answer on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under the Monday Mystery post...do not reply to this email with your guess! We only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email.
Please remember to write the common name, being mindful of hyphens, uppercase and lowercase letters and always include the Latin name in parentheses. To learn more about bird names click here.
Who is this? Photo: Luke Franke/Audubon Photography Awards
This week’s Mystery: Who is this? (Don’t know? Sign up for our Sparrow Identification with Bill Young on February 15!)
Post your guess (please list both common name and Latin name) on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under this week's Monday Nature Mystery. Remember, we only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email!
Good luck!
-Audubon Society of Northern Virginia
Please note that we only accept entries on our Facebook page where they are date- and time-stamped. Remember that, if you need to correct your entry, you should make a new posting rather than correcting the old one so that we get a correct time stamp for your correction. Winners are limited to one prize every 90 days, maximum 2 per person.
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