Brewer's sparrow

Brewer's sparrow
Adult S. b. breweri in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Spizella
Species:
S. breweri
Binomial name
Spizella breweri
Cassin, 1856

Brewer's sparrow (Spizella breweri) is a small, slim species of American sparrow in the family Passerellidae. This bird was named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.

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