Bird
Field Sparrow
Spizella pusilla
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 63 of 67 counties, across 8 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 63 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 63 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 8
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 8
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
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.
Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (34)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
- The model distinguishes abandoned fields from actively planted row crops.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 23 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 60 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 235
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Rhexia salicifoliaRhexia salicifolia
- Bunched BeaksedgeRhynchospora cephalantha
- Chapman's BeaksedgeRhynchospora chapmanii
- Short-bristle Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora corniculata
- Spreading BeaksedgeRhynchospora divergens
- Harper's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harperi
- Large BeaksedgeRhynchospora macra
- Sandy-field BeaksedgeRhynchospora megalocarpa
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Coastal BeaksedgeRhynchospora pleiantha
- Grassleaf ConeflowerRudbeckia graminifolia
- Ruellia noctifloraRuellia noctiflora
- Scrub PalmettoSabal etonia
- American CupscaleSacciolepis striata
- Broadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria latifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Yellow PitcherplantSarracenia flava
- Whitetop PitcherplantSarracenia leucophylla
- Sarracenia psittacinaSarracenia psittacina
- BeachberryScaevola plumieri
- Dune BluestemSchizachyrium littorale
- Pinescrub BluestemSchizachyrium niveum
- Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferumSchizachyrium stoloniferum
Wildlife 282
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
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 Field Sparrow Avoids forest interior
- 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)

































