Nelson's Sparrow is a short-tailed bird with a yellow-orange face. It breeds in northern marshes and winters in coastal marshes of the southeastern United States.
It has a yellow-orange face, gray cheeks, and a yellow band across its finely streaked breast. Its tail is short.
It spends much of its time on or near the ground in dense marsh vegetation. In fall it moves south and winters in saltmarshes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.