Grasshopper Sparrow in Louisiana

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 2

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

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Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerWinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie; Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie

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 (30)

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

In Louisiana 1

West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.

Elsewhere in the South (10)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub 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.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern 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 Louisiana

Year-round: nests here, in 1 of 64 parishes.
Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.

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 9

Common Ragweed
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Giant Ragweed
Ambrosia trifida
Shrub. Native
Lanceleaf Ragweed
Ambrosia bidentata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Perennial Ragweed
Ambrosia psilostachya
Wildflower or fern. Native
Violet Woodsorrel
Oxalis violacea
Wildflower or fern. Native
Flowering Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis florida
Wildflower or fern. Native
Great Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis grandis
Wildflower or fern. Native
Slender Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis dillenii
Wildflower or fern. Native
Tufted Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis colorea
Wildflower or fern. Native

Plant genera in its diet records (2)

Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, 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.