Bird
Grasshopper Sparrow
Ammodramus savannarum
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 4 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Depression ponds and limesinks
Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (29)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Lomas Summer and winter.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- 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.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 7 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 114
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Hypericum brachyphyllumHypericum brachyphyllum
- Highlands Scrub St.john's-wortHypericum cumulicola
- Arcadian St.john's-wortHypericum edisonianum
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Southern BogbuttonLachnocaulon beyrichianum
- Nodding PinweedLechea cernua
- Florida GayfeatherLiatris ohlingerae
- PondspiceLitsea aestivalis
- Curtiss' PrimrosewillowLudwigia curtissii
- Lanceleaf SeedboxLudwigia lanceolata
- Lyonia ferrugineaLyonia ferruginea
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Florida LoosestrifeLythrum flagellare
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- Najas filifoliaNajas filifolia
- PeppervineNekemias arborea
- Britton's BeargrassNolina brittoniana
- Spiked MedusaOrthochilus ecristatus
- Feay's PalafoxPalafoxia feayi
- Bitter PanicgrassPanicum amarum
- Clustered PellitoryParietaria praetermissa
- Paper NailwortParonychia chartacea
Wildlife 253
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- 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
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 Grasshopper 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)































