One of the hardiest sparrows, this is the only one likely to winter in much of the far northern United States and southern Canada, where the dark-eyed junco can also be found. At that season it is ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...

The American tree sparrow is brownish above and paler below. The chest is unstreaked but features an important diagnostic feature, a distinct black central spot. Close inspection of the head pattern ...

Of the many species of birds, the hawks, owls, eagles, cranes, waterfowl and songbirds that migrate south and spend the winter in our area, there is one bird that probably goes unnoticed by most, and ...

On a recent late afternoon, I was watching the shack feeders which were overrun with cardinals, sometimes eight at a time. But closer observation revealed a smaller, but also colorful bird usually ...

This is an encore appearance for the American tree sparrow, which was bird of the week at the end of 2019. The tree sparrows – 60 of them – were found on the Christmas Bird Count at Icelandic State ...

American Tree Sparrows typically live in northern forests and visit feeders only in winter across southern Canada and Northern united States. Many times, they will scratch for millet underneath ...

When snow falls upon my yard in good amounts, I look for hardy winter birds just 5.5 inches long and weighing about as much as a slice of bread to appear beneath my feeders. They’re called American ...

Winter in the Rockies reduces the number and diversity of birds. We do get an influx of four junco subspecies: pink-sided, Oregon, slate-colored and white-winged. They winter in our area, far away ...