The new sparrow from SBRM Characters v4... although it is mostly found east of the Rockies, it appears during migration in my garden in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The White-throated Sparrow breeds throughout the boreal coniferous and mixed forest south of the tree line, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains. It also breeds west of the Rockies in northern-central British Columbia. The southern breeding limit in western Canada generally follows northern limit of aspen parkland, although fragmented populations occur in isolated pockets of coniferous forest just to south. Breeding distribution extends southward into the Great Lakes forest region of Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, central Michigan, southern New York, and the Appalachian Mtn. regions of northeastern Pennsylvania, northwestern Connecticut, southern New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and northwestern New Jersey. Winter populations are densest east of Great Plains, lower numbers occurring through southern plains in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. There have been some sightings in southern Florida, in the West Indies and Bahamas, as well as isolated winter records north to Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland. There is a disjunct wintering population in western California and Oregon, north to southwestern British Columbia, where it has increased since the 1960s, In the winter, it primarily eats small seeds and fruits (insects when available). In the summer months, it primarily feeds insects, supplemented with greens and fruit. The young are fed insects. Late summer and fall diet reverts mainly to fruits and seeds. Although they look nothing alike and aren’t particularly closely related, the White-throated Sparrow and the Dark-eyed Junco occasionally mate and produce hybrids. The resulting offspring look like grayish, dully marked White-throated Sparrows with white outer tail feathers.