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The Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) is an understated yet melodious grassland songbird named by early American naturalist John Burroughs for its enchanting habit of singing sweetest at twilight (vespers). A master of open country, this streaked, ground-nesting...
Birds > Songbirds
The Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) is one of North America’s most familiar and endearing woodland songbirds, celebrated for its crisp, elegant breeding plumage and its rapid, mechanical dry trill that rings through spring pine groves. Recognized by its...
Birds > Songbirds
The Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) is a handsome, large sparrow of the Pacific Coast, famous for the glowing patch of brilliant yellow on its head framed by bold jet-black stripes. A beloved winter resident in coastal California and Oregon, its...
Birds > Songbirds
Brewer’s Sparrow (Spizella breweri) is the quintessential avian voice of the vast, windswept ‘sagebrush sea’ of the American West. Although modestly dressed in subtle, sand-colored plumage that blends seamlessly into the silver-green shrublands, this...
Birds > Songbirds
Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) is an exquisite, secretive songbird celebrated for its rich, musical, wren-like gurgling song and finely etched plumage. Named by John James Audubon after his companion Thomas Lincoln during an 1833 expedition to Labrador,...
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