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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

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

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

WinterDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

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. Those recorded in Mississippi first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (14)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Winter.
Midwest (4)
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Winter.
Land cover and other classes (24)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Winter.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Winter.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Winter.
  • Recently Burned Winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 17 of 82 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 152

Plant genera in its diet records (9)
  • Carex Seeds. 24 diet records. 131 native plants in Mississippi
  • Eriophorum Seeds. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Empetrum Seeds. 3 diet records. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Vaccinium Seeds and flowers. 3 diet records. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Draba Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Mississippi
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Mississippi
  • Brassica Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Picea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Mississippi, 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 129

Plants 1094

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Mississippi

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 75

Plants 172

All of forest edges and thickets in Mississippi

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 158

Plants 26

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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