There are several species of sparrows that live in the southeast. Most are small brown and very hard to tell apart. One of the species you may see on campus is the Chipping Sparrow, Spizella passerina. The males of this species have a reddish cap, white stripe above their eye, a black eye streak, and are pale grayish below the streak.

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