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House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 1 habitat.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
1

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
1
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 1

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/HayLyell 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.
Other habitats in its models (4)

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

Land cover and other classes (4)
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 100 counties. Introduced.

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 44

Plant genera in its diet records (11)
  • Panicum 3 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Helianthus 2 diet records. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oxalis 2 diet records. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum 2 diet records. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Setaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sorghum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Stellaria 2 diet records. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Triticum 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ulmus 2 diet records. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Zea 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Avena 1 diet record. 0 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

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources