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Bell's Sparrow
Artemisiospiza belli (Cassin, 1850)
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Bell's Sparrow, Artemisiospiza belli, is a passerine of the New World sparrows that breeds in North America and Middle America, from south-western USA to Baja California. It lives in open shrubby country, especially places with sagebrush, and the nominate form is tied to coastal chaparral and sagebrush scrub. Other populations use desert scrub with sagebrush, bitterbrush, saltbush and similar shrubs. The species was first described by Cassin in 1850. Its taxonomic history has been revised several times, and it is now placed in Artemisiospiza.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: sw USA to Baja California
