Botteri's Sparrow

Peucaea botterii (Sclater, PL, 1858)

Botteri's Sparrow, Peucaea botterii, is a New World sparrow found from the south-western United States through Middle America to Costa Rica. It belongs to the family Passerellidae and was described by Sclater in 1858. Its range is disjunct, with separate populations in the south-western US, Mexico and parts of Central America. The species is placed in Passeriformes. It is a grassland bird of temperate and desert open country, savanna, oak woodland and coastal prairie, and some southern populations also use pine forest and lowland pine savanna. In Arizona it is now locally common again after a period of absence.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passerellidae — New World Sparrows

Breeding range

North America, Middle America: sw USA to Costa Rica