Savannah Sparrow
SAVS- Scientific: Passerculus sandwichensis
- Spanish: Chingolo Sabanero
- French: Bruant des prés
- Family: New World Sparrows
- Bird Code: SAVS
If there is a 3° C increase in temperature due to unmitigated climate change
Predicted percentage of habitat lost
54%
Summer range lost
23%
Winter range lost
Climate and other threats imore info
Habitat
Common in open weedy or grassy areas, including fields, marches and dunes.
Range
Found throughout Northern United States and most of Canada during summer breeding season. Winters in southern U.S. and Mexico. Can be found year-round along west coast of North America, parts of the northeast coast, and central Mexico.
Did you know?
At the turn of the 19th-20th century, it is known that the Moki Indians in the northwest corner of Arizona – called their regional western Savannah Sparrow, she-huap’che-e.