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American Tree Sparrow

Spizella arborea

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 17 of 82 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
17 of 82 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
17 of 82 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 4

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

1 of 4

Forest edges and thickets

Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields
WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationNamed place / source context. Shown: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee; which part is not recorded, a neighboring state.Wooded scene looking out over partially open fields, Richard Schlecht, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

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.

Winter

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

WinterDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (44)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 17 of 82 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 252

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources