🐾 Song Sparrow

Melospiza melodia · wildlife atlas entry

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The song sparrow ( Melospiza melodia ) is a medium-sized American sparrow. Among the native sparrows in North America, it is easily one of the most abundant, variable and adaptable species. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Song Sparrow — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Ad Konings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ad Konings · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Melospiza melodia
Rank	species
Community observations	277,376 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Passerellidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Central Park, 3883 Imperial St, Burnaby, BC V5J 1A3, Canada
(c) Claude Angelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Central Park, 3883 Imperial St, Burnaby, BC V5J 1A3, Canada
(c) Claude Angelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Clover Point, Victoria, BC, Canada
(c) jeffreyb13_ogden, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
(c) Wendy Feltham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Larimer County, CO, USA
(c) Brett Jackson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Old Road to 9 Acre Corner, Concord, MA, US
(c) rootfactor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Song Sparrow photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-20 · 252 Road 3 W, Kingsville, ON N9Y 2E5, Canada
(c) Ron Bondy, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · cc-by-sa

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All Song Sparrow records on iNaturalist → · Encyclopedia entry (Wikipedia) →

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