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Chipping Sparrow
Spizella passerina · Family Passerellidae
Spizella passerina
Family Passerellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 9,004,168
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 9,004,168 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (83.3%) and Canada (16%); together they account for 99.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.67% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Spizella passerina combines the genus name Spizella with the species epithet passerina. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Spizella; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Spizella pusilla, Spizella pallida and Spizella breweri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Passerellidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Melospiza melodia. Its record count is 11.1 times the family average (810,852). The family Passerellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.