and white-throated sparrows whistled from thickets. We were especially pleased to come across a band of white-crowned sparrows. This species nests far to our north, in taiga and tundra habitats.

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 ...

Learn how to identify a Lincoln’s sparrow. Depending on season and location, sometime large flocks of white-crowned sparrows can be found at seed piles. Fox sparrows are slightly less common ...

The first bird he photographed was a white-crowned sparrow in California ... left), Forsgren traveled across the Americas and made images of 57 bird species temporarily caught in mist nets.

Two weeks ago, I told you about the two crowned sparrows: the white-crowned sparrow and the golden-crowned sparrow. They are perhaps our two most notable autumn arrivals when it comes to ...

These recordings indicate the differences in the “dialects” of two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows. The song of the Gambel’s subspecies, found in Alaska, has a buzzier quality than that ...

Most familiar — or soon to be so — are two sparrows, the white-crowned and the golden-crowned sparrow. Common visitors to feeders for both seed and suet, these birds gather in flocks in weedy ...

White-crowned sparrows are coming through town, foraging in many places. I enjoyed watching one of them figure out how to get at the peanut butter in the feeder; it took a couple of minutes of ...

In the past week, the migration floodgates opened with the arrival of tree sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, fox sparrows, Savannah sparrows, yellow-rumped warblers, Hammond’s flycatchers and ...

Indeed, Douglas Nelson of Ohio State University reports in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that male mountain white-crowned sparrows have a genetic ...