{"id":160145,"date":"2015-05-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=53d9510d00eb4374245667d9a2c62f7d"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:34","slug":"chipping-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/chipping-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipping Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just spent a week in the pine lands of southern New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Chipping sparrows there started singing at dawn and kept on until the sun set.<\/p>\n

I saw dozens of them.<\/p>\n

This one was gathering material for a nest.<\/p>\n

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I just spent a week in the pine lands of southern New Jersey. Chipping sparrows there started singing at dawn and kept on until the sun set. I saw dozens of them. This one was gathering material for a nest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina, is easily identified by its red cap, gray face, black stripe through the eye, and white eyebrow and throat. Click on the photos to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spring is slowly waking in the woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I just spent a week in the pine lands of southern New Jersey. Chipping sparrows there started singing at dawn and kept on until the sun set. I saw dozens of them. This one was gathering material for a nest.          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2196027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--PFZ9Jy4Wro\/VT1hen0I7AI\/AAAAAAAACGk\/gbFIJBM9tCg\/s1600\/1.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3512,2450,5734],"class_list":["post-160145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-chipping-sparrow","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}