Bird
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in all 64 parishes, across 1 habitat.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 1

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 1
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 1
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (4)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.
Land cover and other classes (4)
- Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Year-round: nests here, in all 64 parishes. Introduced.
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 43
- Hall's PanicgrassPanicum hallii var. filipes
- Panicum bergiiPanicum bergii
- Stalked PanicgrassPanicum rigidulum subsp. elongatum
- Beaked PanicgrassPanicum anceps
- Bitter PanicgrassPanicum amarum
- Fall PanicgrassPanicum dichotomiflorum
- Old-witch PanicgrassPanicum capillare
- Panicum tenerumPanicum tenerum
- Panicum virgatum var. virgatumPanicum virgatum var. virgatum
- Redtop PanicgrassPanicum rigidulum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
- Helianthus radulaHelianthus radula
- Rosinweed SunflowerHelianthus silphioides
- Woodland SunflowerHelianthus divaricatus
- Paleleaf SunflowerHelianthus strumosus
- Ashy SunflowerHelianthus mollis
- Beach SunflowerHelianthus debilis
- Hairy SunflowerHelianthus hirsutus
- Helianthus floridanusHelianthus floridanus
- Muck SunflowerHelianthus simulans
- Narrowleaf SunflowerHelianthus angustifolius
- Prairie SunflowerHelianthus petiolaris
- Purpledisk SunflowerHelianthus atrorubens
Plant genera in its diet records (11)
- Panicum 3 diet records. 12 native plants in Louisiana
- Helianthus 2 diet records. 16 native plants in Louisiana
- Oxalis 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
- Polygonum 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
- Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
- Sorghum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
- Stellaria 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
- Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
- Ulmus 2 diet records. 4 native plants in Louisiana
- Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
- Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
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.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Birds 139
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Inca DoveColumbina inca
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachus
- Smith's LongspurCalcarius pictus
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Western Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia hypugaea
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Bronzed CowbirdMolothrus aeneus
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
Plants 958
- Muck SunflowerHelianthus simulans
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Threadleaf SundropsOenothera linifolia
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Golden CrownbeardVerbesina encelioides
- Blackeyed SusanRudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
- Downy Ground-cherryPhysalis pubescens
- Gray Ground-cherryPhysalis grisea
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for House 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)
- Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab) (CC0 1.0), diet records by plant genus


































