#1267 · 🐦 birds

Chipping Sparrow

🇳🇱 Musgors ·Spizella passerina

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The chipping sparrow ( Spizella passerina ) is a species of American sparrow, a passerine bird in the family Emberizidae. It is widespread, fairly tame, and common across most of its North American range. There are two subspecies, the eastern chipping sparrow and the western chipping sparrow. 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. It molts...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 132,007iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
132,007 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1798 (228 years ago).