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Western Washington, yes. I was quite surprised, though, by a couple of Savannah Sparrows (mixed in with a few American Tree Sparrows) on a cold, foggy day last week on the northern end of the Douglas Plateau . The habitat was right. Maybe distracted by the
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Tweeters <tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 26, 2025 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Julia H <azureye@gmail.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Savannah sparrows in winter?</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Julia, small numbers of Savannah Sparrows winter widely in western Washington (like the alliteration?), all the way north into southwestern BC. I would expect them only in wide-open grassy
areas, but if those are present, there could be Savannahs there.
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<div class="">On Nov 26, 2025, at 2:02 PM, Julia H via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">I was surprised to see an ebird checklist for a local (Seattle) park that included savannah sparrow.
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<div class="">In my experience I never see savannah sparrows in Seattle in winter, which would seem to make sense based on their feeding patterns (I'm not sure how they'd survive winter!), and this range map from Cornell seems to agree: <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/maps-range" originalsrc="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/maps-range" class="">https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/maps-range</a></div>
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<div class="">But when I look at the range map for savannah sparrow based on ebird-reported observations, one gets the impression that there's quite a lot of savannah sparrows in western Washington in winter: <a href="https://ebird.org/map/savspa?neg=true&env.minX=-168.66954078670645&env.minY=25.321713084349895&env.maxX=-67.77110328670646&env.maxY=66.86001568245365&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=12-2&bmo=12&emo=2&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025" originalsrc="https://ebird.org/map/savspa?neg=true&env.minX=-168.66954078670645&env.minY=25.321713084349895&env.maxX=-67.77110328670646&env.maxY=66.86001568245365&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=12-2&bmo=12&emo=2&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025" class="">https://ebird.org/map/savspa?neg=true&env.minX=-168.66954078670645&env.minY=25.321713084349895&env.maxX=-67.77110328670646&env.maxY=66.86001568245365&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=12-2&bmo=12&emo=2&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025</a></div>
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<div class="">Should I be looking harder for this sparrow in winter? Or is that aggregated data just likely a lot of rather mistaken birders?</div>
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