page_title: List of birds of New York (state)
section_title: New World sparrows
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of New York (state) / New World sparrows
caption_attribution_description: A Dark-eyed Junco subspecies - the Slate-colored Junco (Junco hyemalis hyemalis).Photo taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 in Johnston County, North Carolina, USA.
context_page_description: This list of birds of New York includes the 495 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of February 2020. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species represent 23 orders and 67 families of 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.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in New York as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Breeding - a species that currently breeds or has bred in New York
  Extinct - a species that used to live in what is now New York but is now extinct
  Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in New York, but populations exist elsewhere
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-nine species have been recorded in New York.
  Cassin's sparrow, Peucaea cassinii (N)
  Bachman's sparrow, Peucaea aestivalis (N)
  Grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum (B)
  Lark sparrow, Chondestes grammacus
  Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys (N)
  Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina (B)
  Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida (B)
  Field sparrow, Spizella pusilla (B)
  Fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca
  American tree sparrow, Spizelloides arborea
  Dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis (B)
  White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
  Golden-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla (N)
  Harris's sparrow, Zonotrichia querula (N)
  White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis (B)
  Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus (B)
  LeConte's sparrow, Ammospiza leconteii (N)
  Seaside sparrow, Ammospiza maritima (U)(B)
  Nelson's sparrow, Ammospiza nelsoni
  Saltmarsh sparrow,Ammospiza caudacuta (U)(B)
  Baird's sparrow, Centronyx bairdii (N)
  Henslow's sparrow, Centronyx henslowii (B)
  Savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis (B)
  Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia (B)
  Lincoln's sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii (B)
  Swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana (B)
  Green-tailed towhee, Pipilo chlorurus (N)
  Spotted towhee, Pipilo maculatus (N)
  Eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus (B)
caption: Dark-eyed junco
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