The White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, passes through the Blue Water Area on its migration route every spring and fall. Since we are very near the northern boundary of its winter territory ...

Have you been hearing new birds? Spring and summer are the main seasons for singing birds, but the relative quiet of autumn can make certain sounds stand out as new migrants arrive. In the ...

We commonly think of migrating birds as those who leave their winter homes in Mexico and other warmer climates to fly north each spring to nest, either summering in our neighborhood (Hooded Orioles ...

Behaviour, Vol. 143, No. 10 (Oct., 2006), pp. 1219-1240 (22 pages) Gambel's white-crown sparrow (Zonotorichia leucophrys gambelii) is a long-distance, over-land migrant. In captivity birds display ...

The Auk, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 807-815 (9 pages) Wintering flocks of Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) consist of black-and-white crowned adults and ...

Q: I know the Old Sam Peabody Bird from visits to Greylock, but for the past few days have seen a small flock at our seed feeder of similar birds, but with more intense white on the head. What can you ...

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 ...

Fall is here, and the voices that tell me so are those of the crowned sparrows. There are two of these birds: the white-crowned and golden-crowned sparrow. Both arrive here in September from their ...

When behavioral ecologist Liz Derryberry saw a news report of coyotes crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in March, she immediately thought of her birds. For over a decade, Derryberry has studied the ...

I’ve been living with white-crowned sparrows all my life. Their year-round range coincides nearly exactly with my life’s range: western Nevada, the Sierra Nevada, coastal California, and western ...

The usual suspects at the home seed feeder don’t change much until autumn arrives and migrant species begin to arrive to escape the chill of northern climates. As I watched the usual gathering of ...