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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Young birds can not only recognize the songs of their own species, but they also detect and show preference for learning the songs of their particular subspecies, a new study has found. A researcher ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Auk: Ornithological Advances aims to advance fundamental scientific knowledge by increasing the basic knowledge of bird species ...

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, ...