The White-crowned Sparrow serves up a smart look with its crisp black-and-white head and gray breast. In the winter, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

The White-throated Sparrow—with its distinctive black, white, and yellow head markings and sweet, whistled song—offers a ...

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 ...

We sampled the songs of 18 populations of montane Whitecrowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) in order to define their dialect groups, if any, and to explore vocal affinities with other ...

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 ...

The white-crowned sparrows have arrived, right on time. These long-distance migrants are prompt with a reputation for their punctuality. Instead of dribbling in, they tend to migrate as a flock, ...

I’m visiting my son out in Fort Bragg, California this week. While walking along the craggy coast, lush and green with exotic spring wildflowers and equally exotic wildlife - oystercatchers and ...