| Robins, song sparrows, vesper sparrows, and swallows are not absent, except as breeding birds. |
| Forests of bur oak serve as breeding sites for numerous songbirds, including indigo bunting, vesper sparrow, and yellow-throated vireo, which breed in these areas exclusively. |
| One day I was lucky enough to see the bird as it was rising to its climax in the air, and to identify it as the vesper sparrow. |
| A young man with a guitar straddled a balustrade and plucked morose notes to a candid vesper hymn as the artisans of the field filed in limpid processions to their familial foodfests. |
| Peter didn't know it, but it is this habit of singing in the evening which has given Sweetvoice his name of vesper sparrow. |
| The pint-size vesper sparrows darting in front of the truck seem to punctuate his point. |
