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 LC    Clay-colored Sparrow* Id (Atlas):
    Spizella pallida Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Clay-colored Sparrow, Clay-coloured Sparrow

Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1832)

Habitat
Temperate grassland, shrubland and forest.

Range (Guide)
Bahamas, Canada (B), Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).

Vagrant to Belize.

Breeds in western and southern Canada from west-central Mackenzie, eastern British Columbia, Alberta, north-western and central Saskatchewan and Manitoba (local and irregular in north) east to southern Ontario and extreme southern Quebec (rarely east to Gaspé Peninsula), southern in USA to southern Wisconsin, Michigan and New York (perhaps rarely south to south-eastern South Dakota, north-western Iowa, Illinois and northern Indiana). Non-breeding in southern USA (southern New Mexico and southern Texas) and Mexico (south to Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas), rarely Guatemala.
 
Population
Estimated population is 23,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (113)...)

 
Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella) [XC813073]
     by Andrew Sonea from Mont Royal Cemetery, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada (song)

 
Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella) [XC103468]
     by Andrew Spencer from Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, Burke Co., North Dakota, United States (call, song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Apparently closely related to Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) and Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri).


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) - 10 files


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