Birds > Songbirds
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
MacGillivray’s Warbler (Geothlypis tolmiei) is a shy, secretive gem of western North America’s mountain thickets. Named in honor of Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray, this elusive skulker of dense riverside willows and avalanche chutes is...
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
The Pacific Wren (Troglodytes pacificus) is a tiny, energetic woodland dynamo that delivers one of the loudest, most complex, and breathtaking songs in the avian kingdom. Inhabiting the dripping, moss-draped old-growth temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest,...
