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White-eared Ground Sparrow (Melozone leucotis)

White-eared Ground Sparrow
Photo: Cephas via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the White-eared Ground Sparrow

The white-eared ground sparrow (Melozone leucotis) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is found in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The white-eared ground sparrow was formally described in 1861 with its present binomial Melozone leucotis.

Source: White-eared ground sparrow on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 42 recordings for this species: 13 CC BY-NC-ND · 12 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.