New World Sparrows

White-eared Ground Sparrow

Melozone leucotis

The White-eared Ground Sparrow (Melozone leucotis) is a 40 g forest bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

New World Sparrows

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

40 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Omnivore

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

6

Recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras.

Where to see it: Curi-Cancha Refugio de Vida Silvestre (Costa Rica); RNP Los Tarrales · sendero La Rinconada (Guatemala); PN Los Volcanes · Sector Cerro Verde (El Salvador); selva negra (Nicaragua); Reserva El Jaguar 13.238x-86.056 - jun. 1, 2016 9:17 (Nicaragua).

Photo: (c) Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist