Bird
American Tree Sparrow
Spizella arborea
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in 7 of 67 counties and 8 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 7 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 7 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Other habitats in its models (38)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in 7 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 220
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Sweet Joe-pye-weedEutrochium purpureum
- American BeechFagus grandifolia
- Upland Swamp PrivetForestiera ligustrina
- Carolina BuckthornFrangula caroliniana
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- GalaxGalax urceolata
- Licorice BedstrawGalium circaezans
- Bluntleaf BedstrawGalium obtusum
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- White AvensGeum canadense
- Lobed Barren-strawberryGeum lobatum
- American Witch-hazelHamamelis virginiana
- HarperellaHarperella nodosa
- Woodland SunflowerHelianthus divaricatus
- Hairy SunflowerHelianthus hirsutus
- Small Wood SunflowerHelianthus microcephalus
- Hymenocallis coronariaHymenocallis coronaria
- St. Peter's-wortHypericum crux-andreae
- Glade St. JohnswortHypericum dolabriforme
- Golden St. John's-wortHypericum frondosum
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- American HollyIlex opaca
- Common WinterberryIlex verticillata
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
Wildlife 253
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for American Tree Sparrow
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)













































