Large-billed Fox Sparrow

Large-billed Fox SparrowThis is the thick-billed group of Fox Sparrows from western North American mountains. Cornell describes it as the Thick-billed group within Fox Sparrow, a broader taxonomic treatment than the pool’s Passerella megarhyncha.What does it look like?The Thick-billed group has a massive bill, grayish head and back, reddish-brown wings and tail, and heavy dark spots on white underparts.How does it live?This is the thick-billed group of Fox Sparrows from western North American mountains. Cornell describes it as the Thick-billed group within Fox Sparrow, a broader taxonomic treatment than the pool’s Passerella megarhyncha.The megarhyncha group breeds in high-elevation chaparral in southern Oregon and California, including the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.