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Field Sparrow

Spizella pusilla

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 5

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

1 of 5

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
SummerWinterDeveloped, Open Space; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

SummerWinter

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh
Other habitats in its models (40)

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

In North Carolina 1

  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (14)
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Winter.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Winter.
Northeast (3)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer.
Land cover and other classes (22)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration 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.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture 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 Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
  • The model distinguishes abandoned fields from actively planted row crops.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 100 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 108

Plant genera in its diet records (17)
  • Panicum Seeds. 7 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Deschampsia Seeds. 4 diet records. 1 native plant in North Carolina
  • Digitaria Seeds. 3 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Acalypha Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Bromus Seeds. 2 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Cirsium Seeds. 2 diet records. 10 native plants in North Carolina
  • Danthonia Seeds. 2 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Festuca Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oxalis Seeds. 2 diet records. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Poa Seeds. 2 diet records. 9 native plants in North Carolina
  • Rumex Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Setaria Seeds. 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sorghastrum Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Chloris Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Cyperus Seeds. 1 diet record. 35 native plants in North Carolina
  • Euphorbia Seeds. 1 diet record. 15 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 40

Plants 231

All of forest edges and thickets in North Carolina

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources