Status: Protected under the MBTA and/or Section 3503 of the California Fish and Game Code1
- During recent decades it has expanded its range north
- Migratory
Habitat:
- Towns, farms, roadsides, thickets, brushy areas. Favors areas with dense low shrubs and open ground, either short grass or open soil, many kinds of second growth, woodland edges
Feeding Behavior/Diet
- Captures insects mostly while walking and running on ground
- Mostly insects and berries. Annual diet is about half insects and other arthropods, half berries and fruits
Reproduction
- Eggs 3-4
- Incubation is by female, 12-13 days
- Young leave the nest about 12 days after hatching, not able to fly well for about another week
- 2-3 broods per year2
1 HELIX Environmental Planning Carson Creek Preserve Long Term Management Plan Rev 6/15/2021
2 National Audubon Society