“…The distributions of NPY and OX in song sparrows are consistent with those of other songbirds (Aste et al, ; Boswell, Li, & Takeuchi, ; Boswell, Millam, Li, & Dunn, ; Den Boer‐Visser & Dubbeldam, ; Esposito, Pelagalli, De Girolamo, & Gargiulo, ; Fiore et al, ; Godden et al, ; Gould, Newman, Tricomi, & DeVoogd, ; Miranda et al, ; Phillips‐Singh et al, ; Singh et al, ; Singh et al, ; Singletary et al, , ; Zhou, Murakami, Hasegawa, Yoshizawa, & Sugahara, ). Nonbreeding subjects had higher NPY‐ ir based on IOD measurements than breeding subjects, specifically in the LS, BST, and VTA.…”