Bird
Le Conte's Sparrow
Ammodramus leconteii
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 5 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 5
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (42)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Winter.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Winter.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Florida Dry Prairie Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 196
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Erectleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium erectifolium
- Rough WitchgrassDichanthelium leucothrix
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Drosera tracyiDrosera tracyi
- Pale Purple ConeflowerEchinacea pallida
- Eastern Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpurea
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Texas PipewortEriocaulon texense
- Snow-on-the-prairieEuphorbia bicolor
- Eastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia corollata
- Fimbristylis carolinianaFimbristylis caroliniana
- Fimbristylis castaneaFimbristylis castanea
- Carolina BuckthornFrangula caroliniana
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Ozark BedstrawGalium virgatum
- Honey LocustGleditsia triacanthos
- Narrowleaf GumweedGrindelia lanceolata
- Common SneezeweedHelenium autumnale
- Shortleaf SneezeweedHelenium brevifolium
- Savanna SneezeweedHelenium vernale
- Heliotropium tenellumHeliotropium tenellum
- HerbertiaHerbertia lahue
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia purpurea var. calycosa
Wildlife 268
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
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 Le Conte's 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)






































