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Field Sparrow
Spizella pusilla · Family Passerellidae
Spizella pusilla
Family Passerellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,002,012
- Countries and territories with records
- 8
About this species
This species has 3,002,012 occurrence records from 8 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (94%) and Canada (6%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Spizella pusilla combines the genus name Spizella with the species epithet pusilla. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Spizella; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Spizella passerina, Spizella pallida and Spizella breweri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Passerellidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Melospiza melodia. Its record count is 3.7 times the family average (810,852). The family Passerellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.