Species: Spizella passerina
Chipping Sparrow
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Emberizidae
Genus
Spizella
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Gorrión Ceja Blanca - bruant familier
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Emberizidae - Spizella - and found no detectable geographic variation in haplotypes, despite the sampling of three named subspecies.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A small bird (sparrow).
Migration
true - true - true - Breeding populations in Canada and the northern United States are long-distance migrants, winter south to southern Mexico. Migrations to northern part of nesting range occur in April-May (Terres 1980). Central American breeders are sedentary.
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
true
Food Comments
Diet includes seeds (e.g., grasses, clover, ragweed, knotweed), spiders, and insects (e.g., weevils, beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers). This sparrow forages mainly on the ground, but also in foliage.
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size is 3-5 (usually 4). Incubation lasts 11-14 days. Individual females may produce 2 broods per year. Both parents tend altricial young, which leave nest in 9-12 days.
Length
14
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2009-03-20
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-04
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Breeding range extends from Alaska east across central Canada to Newfoundland, and south through most of the United States and much of Mexico to northern Baja California, Nicaragua, the U.S. Gulf Coast and northern Florida (AOU 1998, Middleton 1998). Winter range extends from the southern United States southward to northern Nicaragua (AOU 1998, Middleton 1998).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)