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title: "Roodstaartgors"
description: "Passerella iliaca — Vogels. The fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca) is a large New World sparrow."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/fox-sparrow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Roodstaartgors

> Passerella iliaca — Vogels. The fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca) is a large New World sparrow.

- Scientific name: *Passerella iliaca*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 30097
- Wikidata: [Q422873](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q422873)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9156](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9156)

## Names

- en: Fox Sparrow
- de: Fuchsammer
- es: Gorrión rascador
- fr: Bruant fauve
- nl: Roodstaartgors
- pt: Tico-tico-raposino
- pl: Pasówka rudosterna

## Countries with the most observations

US (21006), CA (7143), MX (25), PM (6)

## Summary

The fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca) is a large New World sparrow. It is the only member of the genus Passerella, although some authors split the species into four (see below).

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

## Photo

![Roodstaartgors](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/fox-sparrow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Etienne Falquet · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189004663

## Machine access

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