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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.

1 of 4

Coastal dunes and beaches

White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola
WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime GrasslandGeorge Catlin, White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola (1834-35): high white dunes with scattered clumps of dune plants above the Gulf. Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, FloridaWhite Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola, George Catlin (1796-1872), 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

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.

SummerWinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore

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.

SummerWinter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterPasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (29)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (10)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Lomas Summer and winter.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
Northeast (1)
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland 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.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in 7 of 67 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 7

Plant genera in its diet records (2)
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Florida
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Florida

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 116

Plants 1524

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Florida

Depression ponds and limesinks

Birds 67

Plants 124

All of depression ponds and limesinks in Florida

Florida scrub

Birds 32

Plants 100

All of florida scrub in Florida

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources