Song Sparrow Range Map
Song Sparrows breed from the Aleutian Islands and southern Alaska across Canada north to Great Slave Lake and the southern Hudson Bay to the Maritime Provinces. The range extends south to northern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, across the northern Great Plains to the Pacific Coast. Below the Rocky Mountains, this sparrow's range edges into Mexico and extends along the coast. The winter range includes almost the entire United States. Song Sparrows can be found as high as 9,000 feet, but they typically choose lower altitudes than the conspecific Lincoln's Sparrow (M. lincolnii). Where they occur in arid regions, they are confined to marshes, boggy fields, wet meadows, or streamside vegetation. Aleutian and coastal Alaskan subspecies are confined to sandy and scrubby beaches, and in the San Francisco Bay area, resident Song Sparrows frequent salt marshes. In other areas, typical Song Sparrow habitats include brushy areas along the shores of ponds or stream banks, shrubby moist meadows, cattail swamps, rocky woodland clearings, or open second-growth woodlands. These sparrows inhabit gardens and yards in suburbs or small towns.

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