Description
White-eared Ground-Sparrow (Melozone leucotis). Photographed at Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica.
Date 10 April 2011, 13:57:19
Source Flickr: White-eared Ground-Sparrow (Melozone leucotis) http://flickr.com/photos/9765210@N03/5772412488
Author Dominic Sherony http://www.flickr.com/people/9765210@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melozone_leucotis.jpg

The white-eared ground sparrow (Melozone leucotis) is a large American sparrow which breeds in a small range of Central America at middle altitudes from southern Mexico and Guatemala to northern Costa Rica. The species range is on the Pacific side of Central America, and Belize (on the Gulf of Mexico) and Honduras are not in its normal range. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Emberizidae.