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 ...

When the cat’s away the mice will play, or so the saying goes. But what happens when humanity’s away, locked inside to slow the Covid-19 pandemic? It turns out that birds will play—a sexier song, that ...

A recent photo taken by Pattie Freeman shows several pine siskins eating seed from a seed cylinder. They are probably eating the sunflower chips contained therein. They most often eat nyger (thistle) ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s that time of the year once again when we start seeing those attractive arctic breeders returning to Illinois for the winter. The white-crowned sparrow, with its dark black and bright white crown ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subadult white-crowned sparrow practices singing. There are lots of sparrows. Excepting birders, they get little play or press.