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 LC    White-eared Ground-Sparrow* Id (Atlas):
    Melozone leucotis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-eared Ground-Sparrow, Salvin's Ground-sparrow (occipitalis), White-eared Ground Sparrow

Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cabanis, 1861

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 500 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua.

Unknown to Honduras.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

 
White-eared Ground Sparrow (Melozone leucotis) [XC107337]
     by Richard E. Webster from Hotel Bougainvillea, San Jose, Costa Rica (song)

 
White-eared Ground Sparrow (Melozone leucotis) [XC27986]
     by Luis Sandoval from Finca Los Andes, Guatemala (song)

Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • occipitalis (Salvin, 1878)   -  Pacific coast of southern Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala and El Salvador (Volcán de San Salvador). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Grey-crowned Ground-sparrow (Melozone occipitalis).
  • nigrior Miller, W & Griscom, 1925   -  North-central highlands of Nicaragua.
  • leucotis Cabanis, 1861   -  Highlands of Costa Rica.



References
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Files:
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