Lincoln’s sparrows are the more elegant cousins to the streaky song sparrows of Bay Area wetlands. The next of our “less common” winter sparrows is the fox sparrow, the largest sparrow in ...

A song sparrow is coarsely streaked, dark on back and light underneath, with streaks on its sides that join to form a central breast spot. Its crown is brown with a narrow stripe, and a broader ...

I spy sparrows. The saying, “The Devil is in the details,” applies to sparrows. Even though most sparrows are a mixture of brown, black and white (with a few yellow, green, and other colors ...