What Does a White-Crowned Sparrow Look Like? You see a utter near your feeder and sneak a peek. Oh, its just a house sparrow. But wait! Maybe you should take a closer look. You might be in the ...

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 neighborhood ...

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 North ...

There are lots of sparrows. Excepting birders, they get little play or press. I was mildly self-disgusted to scroll back through the roster of nearly 400 Dispatch columns I’ve written to date and see ...

In Marin, we have a greater variety and abundance of birds in winter than in summer. Now is the time to see big flocks of shorebirds, our maximum diversity of ducks and a wide selection of raptor ...

My backyard was filled with white-crowned sparrows on Mother’s Day – Sunday, May 12. That’s an exaggeration, actually. There were a dozen white-crowned sparrows in my backyard – but that’s quite a few ...

The dramatic reduction in automobile traffic noise in San Francisco during the COVID-19 lockdown has allowed a common songbird to sing softer, more elaborate songs that are more appealing to the ...