Chipping Sparrow

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passerellidae

Genus

Spizella

eBird Code

chispa

Subspecies (5)

• Spizella passerina arizonae

  southeastern Alaska and western Yukon to northwestern Mexico including northern Baja California; winters to Oaxaca

• Spizella passerina atremaea

  Mexico (Sierra Madre Occidental to pine belt of Nuevo León)

• Spizella passerina mexicana

  highlands of western Mexico (Nayarit) to northwestern Guatemala

• Spizella passerina passerina

  breeds southeastern Canada to southern Texas and South Carolina; winters to northeastern Mexico

• Spizella passerina pinetorum

  pine forest of northern Guatemala (Petén) to northeastern Nicaragua