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title: "Vesper Sparrow"
description: "Pooecetes gramineus — Uccelli. The vesper sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) is a medium-sized New World sparrow."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/vesper-sparrow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vesper Sparrow

> Pooecetes gramineus — Uccelli. The vesper sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) is a medium-sized New World sparrow.

- Scientific name: *Pooecetes gramineus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 20586
- Wikidata: [Q776555](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q776555)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10168](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10168)

## Names

- en: Vesper Sparrow
- de: Abendammer
- es: Gorrión cola blanca
- fr: Bruant vespéral
- nl: Avondgors
- pl: Nieszporek

## Countries with the most observations

US (13549), CA (3569), MX (2112)

## Summary

The vesper sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) is a medium-sized New World sparrow. The only member of the genus Pooecetes, it is a pale sparrow with brown streaks that breeds across the grasslands of northern North America. It migrates to winter in the southern United States and Mexico.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_sparrow

## Photo

![Vesper Sparrow](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/vesper-sparrow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sean Haight · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117231149

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/vesper-sparrow?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).