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Olive Sparrow
Arremonops rufivirgatus (Lawrence, 1851)
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Olive Sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, is a New World sparrow in the family Passerellidae that breeds from southern Texas through Middle America to Costa Rica. It is a resident bird with a patchy range, and in Texas it is mainly associated with brushy open woodland and open brushland. Across Mexico it also uses chaparral, thorn forest, shrubby old fields, forest edges and clearings, and the understorey of tropical deciduous forest. In Belize, Guatemala and Costa Rica it is found in grassland, savanna, scrub and forest edge habitats.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: s Texas to Costa Rica
