page_title: List of birds of Colorado
section_title: New World sparrows
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Colorado / New World sparrows
caption_attribution_description: Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus), Burnaby Lake Regional Park (Piper Spit), Burnaby, British Columbia
context_page_description: In the U.S. state of Colorado 511 species of birds have been documented as of July 2020 according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee of Colorado Field Ornithologists. One additional species has been added from eBird as a result of the 2020 taxonomic revisions to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds.
  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.
  Six of the documented birds are introduced species that are not native to North America, but were brought to this continent by humans. They are marked on this list as (I). Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Colorado, are not included.
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.
  Cassin's sparrow, Peucaea cassinii
  Grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum
  Black-throated sparrow, Amphispiza bilineata
  Lark sparrow, Chondestes grammacus
  Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys
  Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina
  Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida
  Black-chinned sparrow, Spiezella atrogularis
  Field sparrow, Spizella pusilla
  Brewer's sparrow, Spizella breweri
  Fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca
  American tree sparrow, Spizelloides arborea
  Dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis
  White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
  Golden-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla
  Harris's sparrow, Zonotrichia querula
  White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis
  Sagebrush sparrow, Artemisiospiza nevadensis
  Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus
  LeConte's sparrow, Ammospiza leconteii
  Nelson's sparrow, Ammospiza nelsoni
  Baird's sparrow, Centronyx bairdii
  Henslow's sparrow, Centronyx henslowii
  Savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis
  Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia
  Lincoln's sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii
  Swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana
  Canyon towhee, Melozone fusca
  Rufous-crowned sparrow, Aimophila ruficeps
  Green-tailed towhee, Pipilo chlorurus
  Spotted towhee, Pipilo maculatus
  Eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
caption: Spotted towhee
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