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Grasshopper Sparrow

Ammodramus savannarum

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3
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 3

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

1 of 3

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
SummerWinterPasture/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.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

SummerWinterSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier
Other habitats in its models (30)

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

Elsewhere in the South (12)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer and winter.
  • Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Lomas Summer and winter.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie 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.
Northeast (1)
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
Midwest (3)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter.
  • North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Land cover and other classes (14)
  • Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration 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.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer and winter.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 42 of 100 counties.
  • Winter: does not nest here, in 26 of 100 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 63 of 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 12

Plant genera in its diet records (2)
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 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

Mountain balds

Birds 23

Plants 76

All of mountain balds 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