I walked into the yurt with Liz Ford and we were discussing how the cats haven't killed anything for a few months when we looked down and discovered that there were feathers everywhere! A fox Sparrow's feathers. This fox sparrow was much darker brown/black then the last fox sparrow which was reddish brown but both were about 7''.
Fox sparrows are heavily spotted to streaked on their chest region and I found out that have a spot on their chest where all the spots come together and make a bigger "messier spot".
A similar species the song sparrow has an all dark bill, notice the fox has a light lower mandible.
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