Sagebrush Sparrow
Artemisiospiza nevadensis (Ridgway, 1874)
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Sagebrush Sparrow, Artemisiospiza nevadensis, is a passerine of the New World sparrows that breeds in west-central USA and spends the non-breeding season in south-west USA and northern Mexico. It was first described by Ridgway in 1874. In its breeding range it is closely tied to big sagebrush, though it also uses places where that shrub grows with bitterbrush, saltbush, greasewood and other shrubs. Outside the breeding season it keeps to similar scrub, and also uses arid grassland, cactus scrub, yucca stands and mesquite with inkweed.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- North America: wc USA
- Nonbreeding range
- sw USA and n Mexico
