A white-crowned sparrow alights on Thursday on a plant on the bluffs above the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz. Depending on the season, this sparrow can be found throughout most of ...

White-crowned sparrow song is a delight to the ear: a mellifluous series of whistles and buzzes infused with a rather melancholy tone. While some adults sang and did so perfectly, the as-yet ...

White-crowned sparrows in California that do not migrate, also known as Nuttall’s sparrows, are larger and darker than the sparrows from Puget Sound, which belong to a different subspecies; ...

In the neighborhood, there are two birds in particular that strike people’s ears, raising eyebrows and sending the bird attentive searching through the […] Skip to content.

Jim McCormac visits Slate Run Metro Park to see and hear white-crowned sparrows, especially the young birds practicing their song.

The white-crowned sparrow breeds along the Pacific Coast, in western mountains and across Canada and Alaska, and winters in much of the United States and Mexico. This bird has a gray body with a ...

Usually the earliest warblers to arrive, they appeared on migration in late April this year, often in small flocks, after wintering in the southern U. S. and Mexico. They are very versatile ...

White-crowned sparrows are birds of low brush, the kind that grows in the Canadian Arctic. That’s where these birds were headed, I imagine. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW.

A white-crowned sparrow alights on Thursday on a plant on the bluffs above the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz. Depending on the season, this sparrow can be found throughout most of No… ...