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 LC    Golden-crowned Sparrow* Id (Atlas):
    Zonotrichia atricapilla

Description (10)
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Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Temperate shrubland and forest, boreal shrubland, tundra.

Range (Guide)
Canada, Mexico, USA (B).

Vagrant to Japan, Russia (Asian).

Breeds in Aleutian Is (eastern from Unimak I and Shumagin Is) and western and north-central Alaska, western Canada (central Yukon and probably south-western Northwest Territories south to southern British Columbia and south-western Alberta) and adjacent USA (extreme north-western Washington). Non-breeding from southern Alaska and southern British Columbia south to south-western USA (south to western California and eastern Nevada) and north-western Mexico (northern and central Baja California, rarely south to Sonora).
 
Population
Estimated population is 5,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (168)...)

 
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) [XC160139]
     by Richard E. Webster from Swan Lake, Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada (song)

 
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) [XC160121]
     by Richard E. Webster from Swan Lake, Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada (call, jumbled calls)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus probably close to Junco. Perhaps most closely related to White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), with which it sometimes hybridizes. Hybridizes less frequently with White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis).


References
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Files:
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