Scientific Name: Passerculus sandwichensis
Population Estimate: 80M, Least Concern status
Range / Habitat: Summers in northern US up through Canada and all of Alaska. Winters in southern US down through Mexico. Found in a variety of open habitats such as meadows, marshland, coastline, and tundra.
Field Notes: Highly variable sparrow with lightly streaked breast and yellow lords. Song Sparrow has central dark chest spot and dark mustache. Vesper Sparrow has bold eye ring. Both lack the yellow lores.
Personal Notes: A pleasant surprise visitor while in a Greater Prairie Chicken blind in Wisconsin. Later seen and photographed in various places throughout the western US before finally seeing him at home in Minnesota in the spring of 2014. Ironically, seen outside Savannah, Georgia en masse in the winter of 2014, not the elusive Seaside, Saltmarsh, or Nelson's Sparrows we were hoping for.
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