Field Sparrow

The Field Sparrow’s latin name is Spizella pusilla. They live in Canada and the Eastern and Southern United States. Their preferred habitat is forest edges, woodland openings, roadsides, open shrublands, and tree farms. The Field Sparrow breeds from April through August. They migrate south during the fall, to prepare for the winter. Their population status is of least concern. When you look at Field Sparrow pictures, you’ll notice that it is a small, warm-toned sparrow with a rusty cap, neat white eyering, and pink bill.

Field Sparrow eggs are white to creamy, spotted with pale purple, reddish-brown, or gray. The Field Sparrow can be found at Coal Creek Farm year round. Their diet consists of spiders, caterpillars, grasshoppers, crickets, flies, bees, moths, seeds, and grains. Grass seeds make up 90% of their diet in the winter. If you search for “Field Sparrow Song”, “Field Sparrow Singing”, or “Song of Field Sparrow”, you’ll learn that the most familiar song is a long, accelerating series of short whistles that build to a rapid trill. It lasts about 4 seconds and has the quality of a bouncing ball coming to rest.