grasshopper sparrow
noun
: a small American sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) that is grayish brown above with a pale belly and has a high-pitched buzzing song that resembles the stridulation of grasshoppers
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Avon Park is now one of the release sites of a grasshopper sparrow captive breeding program and partners with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to monitor the bats and their roosts, so that training exercises can be planned around them. 
Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022 Norfolk County: two black vultures in Medway and two more soaring over Route I-495 in Wrentham, a family of sharp-shinned hawks at Moose Hill Sanctuary in Sharon, and a grasshopper sparrow at the Shea Naval Air Field in Weymouth. BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022 Bell Bowl is home to at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022 In the years since the Great Recession and growth regulations doomed a proposal to turn the 27,000 acres of Osceola County ranchland into a city of 250,000 called Destiny, alarms sounded over a small brown bird, the Florida grasshopper sparrow. Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2021 Bell Bowl contains at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021 Breeding occurs throughout the year, and the grasshopper sparrow might nest upward of three times during a season. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 Florida’s grasshopper sparrow subspecies was the rarest bird in the continental U.S. just a few years ago, but a captive breeding program has numbers climbing. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 Observers spotted a Cory’s shearwater at Apponagansett Bay in Dartmouth, a marsh wren at Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth, and a grasshopper sparrow at Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield. BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019 See More
Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022 Norfolk County: two black vultures in Medway and two more soaring over Route I-495 in Wrentham, a family of sharp-shinned hawks at Moose Hill Sanctuary in Sharon, and a grasshopper sparrow at the Shea Naval Air Field in Weymouth. BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022 Bell Bowl is home to at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022 In the years since the Great Recession and growth regulations doomed a proposal to turn the 27,000 acres of Osceola County ranchland into a city of 250,000 called Destiny, alarms sounded over a small brown bird, the Florida grasshopper sparrow. Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2021 Bell Bowl contains at least 164 species of plants, many of which are rare, and birders have found rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021 Breeding occurs throughout the year, and the grasshopper sparrow might nest upward of three times during a season. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 Florida’s grasshopper sparrow subspecies was the rarest bird in the continental U.S. just a few years ago, but a captive breeding program has numbers climbing. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 Observers spotted a Cory’s shearwater at Apponagansett Bay in Dartmouth, a marsh wren at Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth, and a grasshopper sparrow at Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield. BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above