Song Sparrow

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passerellidae

Genus

Melospiza

eBird Code

sonspa

Subspecies (24)

• Melospiza melodia adusta

  west-central Mexico

• Melospiza melodia atlantica

  breeds coastal New York (Long Island) to North Carolina; winters to northern Georgia

• Melospiza melodia caurina

  breeds coastal southeastern Alaska (Yakutat Bay to Cross Sound); winters to northern California

• Melospiza melodia cleonensis

  far southwestern coastal Oregon to northern California (western Mendocino County)

• Melospiza melodia fallax

  southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah southward to southeastern California, northeastern Baja California, and northeastern Sonora

• Melospiza melodia goldmani

  Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico (El Salto area of Durango)

• Melospiza melodia gouldii

  coastal central California (Mendocino County to northern San Benito County)

• Melospiza melodia graminea

  California Channel Islands (San Clemente, San Miguel, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and Anacapa) off southern Calfornia and Los Coronados Islands, west of Baja California; formerly also Santa Barbara Island (Channel Islands), but now extirpated

• Melospiza melodia heermanni

  central and southwestern California (including the Central Valley) and northwestern Baja California

• Melospiza melodia insignis

  Kodiak Group (Sitkalidak Island to Barren Islands) and adjacent Alaskan Peninsula

• Melospiza melodia kenaiensis

  coastal southern Alaska (Cook Inlet to Copper River)

• Melospiza melodia maxillaris

  brackish marshes of central California (Suisun Bay)

• Melospiza melodia maxima

  Aleutian Islands (Attu to Atka)

• Melospiza melodia melodia

  breeds northeastern British Columbia to eastern Canada, and northeastern Montana to northern Arkansas and western North Carolina; winters southward to Texas and southeastern USA including Florida

• Melospiza melodia merrilli

  breeds southeastern Alaska (Glacier Bay) and central British Columbia to southwestern Alberta and northwestern Montana; winters to central California and northern Mexico

• Melospiza melodia mexicana

  wetlands of central Mexico (Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Distrito Federal, and México)

• Melospiza melodia montana

  breeds eastern Oregon and northeastern California to central Montana, western Colorado, northeastern Arizona, and northern New Mexico; winters to central California and northwestern Mexico

• Melospiza melodia morphna

  breeds southwestern British Columbia to southwestern Oregon; winters to central California

• Melospiza melodia pusillula

  saltmarshes of central California (south side of San Francisco Bay)

• Melospiza melodia rivularis

  south-central Baja California

• Melospiza melodia rufina

  breeds outer islands of southeastern Alaska to central British Columbia; winters to western Washington

• Melospiza melodia samuelsis

  saltmarshes of central California (San Pablo and San Francisco bays)

• Melospiza melodia sanaka

  eastern Aleutian Islands (Seguam to Amak), Alaska Peninsula eastward to Stepovak Bay, and islands south of peninsula (Sanak eastward to Semidi islands)

• Melospiza melodia villai

  central Mexico (upper Río Lerma), southeastern Guanajuato and northwestern Michoacán