Scientific Name: Spizella breweri
Residency: Winters are spent in South half of the state, and sumers are spent in the North.
Diet: Seeds and insects.
Predators: Nest predators include, Gopher Snakes and other snakes. Adults are preyed upon American Kestrel and Prairie Falcon.
Nesting: The nest is constructed of grass on or near the ground. Three to five bluish, brown-spotted eggs are laid. There are two distinct nesting populations, one is located in the alpine meadows of the Rocky Mountains of the Yukon, and the other is in the sagebrush deserts.
Nesting Records:
Notes: In areas where habitat destruction and/or fragmentation have occurred due to range management/grazing, population numbers of the Brewer?s Sparrow have decreased significantly. When heavy grazing occurs, this often causes the invasion of non-native species of plants, especially grasses that are more prone to fires, resulting in the destruction of sagebrush habitat, so vital to this species.
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