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Fox Sparrow

Passerella iliaca

A winter visitor to Florida, found in 28 of 67 counties and 8 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
28 of 67 counties
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
28 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 Florida 8

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 8

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

WinterSouth Florida Hardwood Hammock; Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest

Florida scrub

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.

Winter

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

WinterSouthwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock; Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock; East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

WinterDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

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.

WinterBeside its main habitat.
Other habitats in its models (83)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Winter.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Winter.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Winter.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Winter.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Winter.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier 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.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
  • South Texas Lomas Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Winter, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 28 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 554

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 253

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources