The orioles are gone now and as we slip into the mellow days of fall the nectar feeder hanging just outside my office window seems less exciting as only hummingbirds are buzzing about. But movement at ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have been paying attention to your backyard birdseed feeder, you may have noticed some new faces among the usual suspects. Fall brings the arrival of white-crowned sparrows, and soon these ...

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 ...

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 ...

The white-throated sparrow also has a close relative that is a little less common. The white-crowned sparrow is one of the more distinctive species in a family often unfairly dismissed as “little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World's Most Beautiful Sparrows: Among the world's many charming sparrows, the White-Crowned Sparrow stands out for its striking black-and-white head stripes, soft grey breast, and melodic song.

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) ...