Clay-Coloured Sparrow
Spizella pallida(Swainson, WJ, 1832)
English (US) Clay-colored Sparrow
UK name: Clay-Coloured Sparrow
The Clay-Coloured Sparrow (Spizella pallida) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Passerellidae (New World Sparrows) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds western Canada and USA; winters to GuatemalaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Spizella pallida
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- English (UK)
- Clay-Coloured Sparrow
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Emberiza pallida
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
- Type locality
- Carlton House, Saskatchewan.
- Original description
- Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part second, the birds pt.2 p.251
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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