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Image Credits: photo of Sagebrush 
Sagebrush Brewer's SparrowSpizella breweri breweri
The Sagebrush Brewer's Sparrow is a small bird about 6 cm tall.
The wing feathers of this sparrow are grey, brown and black with
white streaks. The tail is a dark brown and its breast is white.
In the spring, this sparrow migrates into the south Okanagan and
Similkameen Valleys. The female lays her eggs in the nest that
she builds in the dry sagebrush, using grass and weed stems. The
mother sparrow keeps her eggs warm for about eleven days, or until
the baby birds hatch.
Once the baby sparrows are born, the mother hunts for food to
feed them. Brewer's Sparrows love to eat crunchy insects like
beetles, ants, wasps and grasshoppers in summer. During the winter,
they hunt for weed seeds. These birds don't drink water but get
water from the food they eat. This helps them to survive in a
dry climate.
By the end of summer the young birds can fly. Then it is time
to fly south before the cold winter arrives. Once the spring flowers
start to bloom again, the Brewer's Sparrows migrate back to their
summer home in the sunny Thompson-Okanagan.
The Brewer's Sparrows are considered endangered in the Thompson-Okanagan
region because fires have burned the sagebrush that they live
in. These shrubs are where the birds find food and make their
nests.
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