grasshopper sparrow

noun

: a small American sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) that is grayish brown above with a pale belly and has a high-pitched buzzing song that resembles the stridulation of grasshoppers

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In particular, birds with relatively large territories that sing at medium to high mean frequencies—such as the grasshopper sparrow found in North America—were less likely to be heard. —Bymolly Magid, science.org, 18 Oct. 2022

Avon Park is now one of the release sites of a grasshopper sparrow captive breeding program and partners with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to monitor the bats and their roosts, so that training exercises can be planned around them. —Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022

Norfolk County: two black vultures in Medway and two more soaring over Route I-495 in Wrentham, a family of sharp-shinned hawks at Moose Hill Sanctuary in Sharon, and a grasshopper sparrow at the Shea Naval Air Field in Weymouth. —BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022

Bell Bowl is home to at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. —Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022

In the years since the Great Recession and growth regulations doomed a proposal to turn the 27,000 acres of Osceola County ranchland into a city of 250,000 called Destiny, alarms sounded over a small brown bird, the Florida grasshopper sparrow. —Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2021

Bell Bowl contains at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. —Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021

Breeding occurs throughout the year, and the grasshopper sparrow might nest upward of three times during a season. —From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021

Florida’s grasshopper sparrow subspecies was the rarest bird in the continental U.S. just a few years ago, but a captive breeding program has numbers climbing. —From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above