Description Durango Highway,Sinaloa
Date 15 March 2010, 18:25
Source Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (Melozone kieneri) https://www.flickr.com/photos/sussexbirder/8079396250/
Author Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom https://www.flickr.com/people/9919745@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rusty-crowned_Ground-Sparrow_(Melozone_kieneri)_(8079396250).jpg

The rusty-crowned ground sparrow (Melozone kieneri) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family that is endemic to western and southwestern Mexico. The species occurs both in the Sierra Madre Occidental range, and the Cordillera Neovolcanica mountain belt. The rusty-crowned ground sparrow's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Emberizidae.