Brewer's Sparrow
Spizella breweri
Synopsis: Nests in rangeland and grassland throughout most of eastern Oregon. Also nests locally in some brushy clearings in the Cascades and in the Rogue Valley. Records from Jackson and eastern Klamath Counties are notable.

Habitat Associations:
strongest
Sagebrush Steppe (4468310 acres)
Big Sagebrush Shrubland (12067732 acres)
strong
Lodgepole Pine Forest/Woodland (137016 acres)
Low-Dwarf Sagebrush (432677 acres)
Salt Desert Scrub Shrubland (571910 acres)
some
W. Juniper Woodland (3400076 acres)
Northeast Modified Grassland (439236 acres)
Seasonally Wet Playa (128054 acres)
Edges of Cropland/Pasture/Orchard (2076357 acres)
lesser
Ponderosa-Lodgepole Pine on Pumice (677365 acres)
Mountain Mahogany Shrubland (1378 acres)
Bitterbrush-Big Sagebrush Shrubland (69456 acres)
Northeast Canyon Grass & Shrubland (157493 acres)
Grassland & Fir-Ponderosa Interspersed (165610 acres)
Edges of Recently Cutover/Burnt Forest (275707 acres)

Relative Detectability: Easy to detect by sight and song, and fairly easy to confirm breeding.

Challenge: Determine if this species breeds more widely than shown in parts of southwestern Oregon, the Columbia Basin (southern Morrow and Umatilla Counties), eastern Wallowa Mountains, and Blue Mountains (northeastern Grant, Union Counties).