A very round white throated sparrow is the heavyweight champion of the 2025 Wisconsin Fat Bird Week contest. The bird, coined ...

These recordings indicate the differences in the “dialects” of two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows. The song of the Gambel’s subspecies, found in Alaska, has a buzzier quality than that ...

White-crowned sparrows that breed along the Pacific Coast tend to have yellow bills and duller white head stripes and birds that breed from Alaska to Hudson Bay tend to have orange bills and white ...

White-crowned sparrow song is a delight to the ear ... And when it comes to sheer aural elegance, few of our birds can match the sparrows. Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column for The Dispatch ...

Ornithologists recognize dozens of subspecies of these adaptable birds. Learn how to identify a chipping sparrow. Meet the white-crowned sparrow and white-throated sparrow. This bird constructs a ...

Bird lovers have spoken, and the official champion of Wisconsin Fat Bird Week 2025 is Spherical White-throated Sparrow. Online voting in the contest was held from May 2 through May 9. Voters chose ...

White-crowned sparrow: A striking white-and-black striped ... Ruby-crowned kinglet: A bubbly, tiny bird that you’ll likely hear before you see — learn and then listen for the male’s loud ...

The two autumn singers are the golden-crowned and white-crowned sparrow. The golden-crowned sparrow has the most memorable of all bird songs, with an easily distinguished melody that makes it the ...

Some birds fly thousands of kilometres to reach ... and his colleagues peered into the muscle cells of a subspecies of white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) that migrates seasonally ...

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats. Weighing in at a single ounce, ...

The third local member of the genus is the white-throated sparrow, which is far less common than the two crowned sparrows. Primarily an eastern bird, white-throated sparrows also have a smaller ...

Spherical White-throated Sparrow took the prize at Wisconsin Fat Bird Week. The contest was organized by the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and SOS Save Our Songbirds. A funny ...