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 LC    White-throated Sparrow* Id (Atlas):
    Zonotrichia albicollis

Description (10)
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Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Temperate shrubland and forest, boreal shrubland.

Range (Guide)
Canada (P), Mexico, Puerto Rico, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), USA (B).

Vagrant to Aruba, Denmark, Gibraltar, Iceland, Netherlands Antilles, United Kingdom.

Breeds in Canada (mainly east of Rocky Mts) from south-eastern Yukon, west-central and southern Mackenzie, northern and central Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba east to Newfoundland, south to south-central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, southern Ontario, Vermont and Nova Scotia, and in north-eastern USA south to north-central North Dakota, northern and eastern Minnesota, central Wisconsin, central Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and northern Pennsylvania. In non-breeding season found in south-eastern Canada (southern Maritimes, south-eastern Quebec, rarely southern Ontario), in USA from eastern South Dakota, southern Wisconsin and southern Michigan south to south-central Florida and Gulf Coast, and from southern Arizona east to southern Texas, and in northern Mexico (south to northern Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, rarely to Sonora); also uncommonly along Pacific coast from extreme south-western Canada (southern British Columbia) south to extreme north-western Mexico (northern Baja California).
 
Population
Estimated population is 140,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (478)...)

 
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) [XC187559]
     by Dan Lane from Seawall, ME, United States (?)

 
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) [XC340812]
     by Robin Sommerfeld from Dawson Creek, Canada (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus probably close to Junco. Hybrids between present species and Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla), White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) and nominate subspecies of Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) reported.


References
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Files:
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