page_title: List of birds of Iowa
section_title: New World sparrows
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Iowa / New World sparrows
caption_attribution_description: Description: Slate-colored Junco (Junco hyemalis hyemalis), Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada, 2005 Photograph: Mdf first upload in en wikipedia on 15:21, 12 October 2005 by Mdf Licence:
context_page_description: This list of birds of Iowa includes species documented in the U.S. state of Iowa and accepted by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. As of July 2020, there are 430 species included in the official list. Of them, 92 are classed as accidental, 25 are classed as casual, eight have been introduced to North America, three are extinct, and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Iowa are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Iowa, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following codes are used to designate some species:
  Accidental - "seen once to several times, but less than 4 of last 10 years" per the IOU
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Passerellidae
  Until 2017, these species were considered part of the family Emberizidae. Most of the species are known as sparrows, but these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae. Many of these have distinctive head patterns. Twenty-six species have been recorded in Iowa.
  Grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum
  Black-throated sparrow, Amphispiza bilineata (A)
  Lark sparrow, Chondestes grammacus
  Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys (A)
  Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina
  Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida
  Field sparrow, Spizella pusilla
  Fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca
  American tree sparrow, Spizelloides arborea
  Dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis
  White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
  Golden-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla (A)
  Harris's sparrow, Zonotrichia querula
  White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis
  Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus
  LeConte's sparrow, Ammospiza leconteii
  Nelson's sparrow, Ammospiza nelsoni
  Baird's sparrow, Centronyx bairdii (A)
  Henslow's sparrow, Centronyx henslowii
  Savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis
  Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia
  Lincoln's sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii
  Swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana
  Green-tailed towhee, Pipilo chlorurus (A)
  Spotted towhee, Pipilo maculatus
  Eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
caption: Dark-eyed junco
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