"[The Swamp Sparrow] winters in Texas as a migrant from Canada and the Northeast. It occurs most abundantly along the upper coast and in the eastern third of the state ... A dark, rust-colored sparrow, it has a reddish crown that develops a gray central stripe in winter plumage." (Tveten, p. 359.)

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (p. 384) notes "rufous crown ... clean gray breast."

This is the Swamp Sparrow on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds website.

Photo taken with a Nikon D80 with a Nikon 400mm f/5.6.

January 19, 2008.