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 ...

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.

The two autumn singers are the golden-crowned and white-crowned sparrow. The golden-crowned sparrow has the most memorable of all bird songs, with an easily distinguished melody that makes it the ...

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 ...

Bird calls are detected, recorded and identified to species, and users are shown photos ... the chipping sparrow, lark sparrow, Lincoln’s sparrow, vesper sparrow and white-crowned sparrow.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...