Field Sparrow

Common Name: Field Sparrow

Scientific Name: Spizella pusilla

Range: This bird typically breeds from northern North Dakota, central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and central New England to southern Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, central Texas and western Colorado. The birds spend their winters south of the Gulf of Mexico.

Habitat: The birds prefer abandoned fields and pastures overgrown with weeds, scattered bushes and small saplings.

The pictures above were taken on the North 40 the top picture the bird can easily be seen but hard to identify, but the bottom picture the bird is easy to identify but difficult to find.