Bachman's Sparrow

On May 12, 2024 I was with my sons, Sam and Andrew, on the Patsy Pond Nature Trail in Carteret County, North Carolina, near the Atlantic Ocean. Sam is very interested in woodpeckers and was looking for the red-cockaded woodpecker in the pine forests that are found there. I photographed a sparrow and identified it as a song sparrow on iNaturalist. I had two different identifiers disagree and labeled it as a Bachman's sparrow. 

It is most common in mature, open pine forests, and was called the pine-woods sparrow for years. It is now rare in many areas it used to be common. It now is found in restored pine lands managed for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. 

It is endemic to the southeastern U.S. Range from Birds of the World.