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Lark Sparrow

Chondestes grammacus

A summer resident that nests in Mississippi. Found in 51 of 82 counties, across 6 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
51 of 82 counties
Habitats
6

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
51 of 82 counties
Habitats
6
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Mississippi 6

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

1 of 6

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Prairies and grasslands

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

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

SummerWinterCultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (210)

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

Elsewhere in the South (40)
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Stabilized Coppice Dune and Sand Flat Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Coahuilan Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Oriental Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Interior Acid Cliff Summer and winter.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer and winter.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
Midwest (19)
  • Central Interior Calcareous Cliff and Talus Summer and winter.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Alvar Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Dune Summer and winter.
  • Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer and winter.
  • Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter.
West (118)
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
  • California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • California Central Valley Mixed Oak Savanna Summer and winter.
  • California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • California Lower Montane Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • California Maritime Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • California Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter.
  • California Montane Jeffrey Pine-(Ponderosa Pine) Woodland Summer and winter.
  • California Montane Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • California Northern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • California Xeric Serpentine Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Central California Coast Ranges Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Gypsophilous Grassland and Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Loamy Plains Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Succulent Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert Bottomland and Swale Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Blackbrush-Mormon-tea Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Bedrock Canyon and Tableland Summer and winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Basin Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Ash and Tuff Badland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Low Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Scabland Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Steppe and Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Mat Saltbush Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Shale Badland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Wash Summer and winter.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Lower Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Upper Montane Serpentine Mixed Conifer Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Encinal Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Juniper Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Madrean Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Mesic Serpentine Woodland and Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Mixed Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Barrens Summer and winter.
  • Mediterranean California Serpentine Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Seep Summer and winter.
  • Mogollon Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Mojave Mid-Elevation Mixed Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Bedrock Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Wash Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Dry Grassland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Maritime Mesic Subalpine Parkland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Montane Grassland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
  • North Pacific Serpentine Barren Summer and winter.
  • Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Cliff, Canyon and Massive Bedrock Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer and winter.
  • Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Sierra Nevada Cliff and Canyon Summer and winter.
  • Sierra Nevada Subalpine Lodgepole Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Sierran-Intermontane Desert Western White Pine-White Fir Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Sonora-Mojave Creosotebush-White Bursage Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Sonora-Mojave Mixed Salt Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Sonora-Mojave Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Sonoran Mid-Elevation Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Sonoran Paloverde-Mixed Cacti Desert Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Southern California Coastal Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Southern California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer and winter.
  • Southern California Oak Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Cliff and Outcrop Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (31)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Barren Land Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Creosotebush, Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Chihuahuan Mixed Desert and Thorn Scrub Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Shrub Steppe 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.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer and winter.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • North American Warm Desert Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
  • Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer and winter.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer and winter.
  • Paleozoic Plateau Bluff and Talus Summer and winter.
  • Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • Western Great Plains Badland Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Mississippi

  • Summer: nests here, in 51 of 82 counties.

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

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 50

Plants 240

All of prairies and grasslands in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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