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 ...

Like many in the Northland, I like to feed birds during the winter. Though there are some who keep their feeders stocked throughout the year, I begin the feeding as we reach November. With chilly ...

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 ...

The mourning dove is one of the most abundant species in North America, found in Canada, all of the lower 48 states, well into Mexico. It is a widely hunted gamebird, although welcomed as a songbird ...

MOST WINTERS, a few sparrows visit my yard, feeding on the seeds I scatter on the ground near my bird feeder. These particular sparrows have long tails, rusty crowns and eye-lines on their gray heads, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Come late October/early November, the American tree sparrows descend on Ohio’s meadows. To these plucky little songbirds, Ohio’s winters are its Florida vacation. Tree sparrows breed as far north as ...

Every Christmas Bird Count brings its own challenges, but the challenge at Icelandic State Park’s count near Cavalier, N.D., was unexpected. Sixty tree sparrows were seen. Tree sparrows on Christmas ...

Bird-feeding, if done properly, can help these birds survive. Black-capped chickadees, for example, have a much higher winter ...

Many familiar birds of the urban environments represent species that were introduced from outside of North America. In Iowa, these include rock pigeon, European starling and house sparrow, which was ...

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 ...