Harris's Sparrow

Description: 7 1/2" Large sparrow, adult has black crown, throat and chest, brown back, wings, and tail, and white abdomen with spotted and/or streaked sides, immatures have buff faces and lack solid black crown and throat	Habitat: Boreal forest clearings, brushy areas near streams, woodland edges, hedgerows, brush lands. Probably the only species that summers entirely within Canada and winters entirely within the United States.
Nesting: 3-5 pale green, brown-blotched eggs in a plant fiber and leaf nest lined with grass and placed on the ground or at the base of a bush.	Range: breeds from northern Canada west and south to Manitoba, winters in US from Nebraska south to Texas, some reach Pacific Coast.
Voice: a series of clear, high notes followed by another series at a different pitch	Diet: seeds, berries, insects, including spiders, few snails; forb, grass, sedge, and rush seeds.

Notes: in winter they mix with and generally dominate flocks of the more numerous White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows, the largest sparrow, often shy and wary

When present in Oklahoma: present during winter only