...and that's why they call it a white-throated sparrow.



Finally a name that makes sense.
I suppose it could be called the yellow eye-browed sparrow or the sparrow with the white stripes on its head but they went for the obvious.
Besides there is already a white-crowned sparrow and who talks about eyebrows.

Zonotrichia albicollis

Crisp facial markings make the White-throated Sparrow an attractive bird as well as a hopping, flying anatomy lesson. There’s the black eyestripe, the white crown and supercilium, the yellow lores, the white throat bordered by a black whisker, or malar stripe.
The oldest recorded White-throated Sparrow was 9 years 8 months old.

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