Chipping Sparrow
Spizella passerina
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 84,209
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) is a species of New World sparrow, a passerine bird in the family Passerellidae. It is widespread, fairly tame, and common across most of its North American range. The chipping sparrow has five subspecies. This bird is a partial migrant with northerly populations flying southwards in the fall to overwinter in Mexico and the southern United States, and flying northward again in spring.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Chipping sparrow”.