Brewer's sparrow | |
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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
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Binomial name | |
Spizella breweri Cassin, 1856
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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.[2]