Lincoln's Sparrow Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: Lincoln's Sparrows are one of my favorite species. They're just so elegant looking when you see them live. They're a species I primarily run across during fall migration, when they can be quite common. I've had plenty of chances over the years, but of the photos I've gotten I guess this is my favorite, one showing the typical fall weed patch that they're often utilizing as they migrate through. From October 21st, 2016 in Lincoln County, South Dakota.

Lincoln's Sparrow 19 - Melospiza lincolnii


Lincoln's Sparrow 1	Lincoln's Sparrow 2	Lincoln's Sparrow 3	Lincoln's Sparrow 4
October 7th, 2008	September 30th, 2006	September 30th, 2006	September 30th, 2006
Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Bird perched on a wooden fence post	Bird doing the splits between two weed stems	Profile of a sparrow sitting on a barbed wire fence	Vertical of sparrow in head-on view

Lincoln's Sparrow 5	Lincoln's Sparrow 6	Lincoln's Sparrow 7	Lincoln's Sparrow 8
October 7th, 2006	October 7th, 2006	October 5th, 2008	October 5th, 2008
Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota
Bird perched on a wooden fence rail in the sun	Bird perched on a wooden fence rail facing the camera	Profile of a bird in a shrubby habitat	Profile of a bird in a shrubby habitat

Lincoln's Sparrow 9	Lincoln's Sparrow 10	Lincoln's Sparrow 11	Lincoln's Sparrow 12
October 5th, 2008	October 5th, 2008	October 5th, 2008	October 5th, 2008
Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota
Bird perched on the stub of a dead branch	Head-on view of a bird in a brushy thicket	Bird facing the camera	Profile of a migrating bird in the autumn

Lincoln's Sparrow 13	Lincoln's Sparrow 14	Lincoln's Sparrow 15	Lincoln's Sparrow 16
October 12th, 2008	October 5th, 2008	October 4th, 2009	October 4th, 2009
Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Corson, South Dakota	Near Brandon, South Dakota	Near Brandon, South Dakota
Migrating fall bird in a brushy thicket	Migrating fall bird in a brushy thicket	BOAS! Bird-on-a-stick, perched in open with OOF background	Sparrow clinging to weed stem on edge of a wetland

Lincoln's Sparrow 17	Lincoln's Sparrow 18	Lincoln's Sparrow 19	Lincoln's Sparrow 20
October 13th, 2013	October 10th, 2016	October 21st, 2016	September 15th, 2019
Near Corson, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Lincoln County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Bird perched on a dead branch of a bush	Side view of curious sparrow in weedy patch	Autumn bird in morning light on a barbed wire fence	First year (?) sparrow with weed seed in bill

Lincoln's Sparrow 21	Lincoln's Sparrow 22	Lincoln's Sparrow 23	Lincoln's Sparrow 24
October 14th, 2019	October 14th, 2019	October 14th, 2019	October 21st, 2016
Good Earth State Park, South Dakota	Good Earth State Park, South Dakota	Good Earth State Park, South Dakota	Lincoln County, South Dakota
Profile of a bird on a weedy stem	Profile of a bird on a weedy stem	Sparrow foraging along the ground in a grassy ditch	Sparrow hunting for seeds in a weedy patch

Lincoln's Sparrow 25	Lincoln's Sparrow 26	Lincoln's Sparrow 27
October 7th, 2017	October 7th, 2017	October 12th, 2020
Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Migrating sparrow clinging to an autumn weed stem	Bird perched on a barbed wire fence	Gorgeous morning light on a sparrow on a dried autumn weed stem