With striking white and yellow head markings, this sparrow is truly eye-catching ... brown hue during the breeding season. A striking bird with speckled brown plumage and a pale yellow throat.

It was a smallish bird, about the size of a house sparrow. In fact, that is what I first thought it was, some type of sparrow. But that wasn’t right, there was too much yellow in the bird’s ...

A sparrow-like ... ground-feeding bird with a yellow body and tinges of black, white and brown streaking its head and wings. ”The longspur gets its name for the long spur, like a talon, on ...