white-throated sparrow
zonotrichia albicollis latin

"A little bit later you get lots of juncos and white-throated sparrows coming through."

They especially enjoyed the sounds of the wood thrush and white-throated sparrows."

White-throated sparrows and juncos scratch at the ground in search of nourishing seeds.

Hybridization with both White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows has been reported.

Hear those white-throated sparrows?

White-throated Sparrows breed in central Canada and New England.

However, even in small quantities, acephate throws off the navigation systems of white-throated sparrows and other songbirds, making them unable to tell north from south.

Many birds they caught tested negative, including 76 white-throated sparrows, 58 dark-eyed juncos, and 34 black capped chickadees.

On the walk, families can expect to see muskrats as well as birds like red-tailed hawks, white-throated sparrows and red-bellied woodpeckers.

The most frequently harmed species include White-throated Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and Ovenbirds.

The feeders may beckon evening grosbeaks, cardinals, nuthatches, titmice, chickadees, juncoes and white-throated sparrows.

The same species appear in the aspen-birch-fir forest with the addition of white-throated sparrows, magnolia wablers, yellow-rumped warblers, and winter wrens.

Chickadees, white-throated sparrows, juncos, woodpeckers, nuthatches and grosbeaks are among the birds who don't mind the cold and don't fly South.

But Ms. Kederich likes to watch the white-throated sparrows drop in to feed on the seeds of all these annuals in the middle of their fall migration.

Birdwatching (white-throated sparrows, ruffed grouse, warbler, osprey, bald eagles, great blue herons, bohemian waxwings, pine grosbeaks and white-winged crossbills)

Birds seen along the southern part of the trail include the Acadian flycatcher, Henslow's sparrow, red-headed woodpecker or hooded warbler, while further north white-throated sparrows, ruffed grouse and bald eagles become more common.

Though most migrating birds have already passed through New York for the winter, Ms. Creshkoff found seven dead birds Wednesday morning: two white-throated sparrows, two black-eyed juncos, a woodcock, a brown creeper and an unidentifiable carcass.

Here's a video of a Harris's Sparrow feeding alongside adult and juvenile white-throated sparrows, Z. albicollis, and house sparrows, Passer domesticus, in Grand Forks, North Dakota (filmed on 12 October 2009):

"I saw it there today," a naturalist, Sarah Elliott, said on Wednesday, after spending 12 hours in the park watching white-throated sparrows, thrushes, warblers and phoebes gorging themselves on seeds and berries, fattening up for the long flight south.

Today, the picturesque area of more than 2,575 acres is home to red-tailed hawks, white-throated sparrows and blue jays, and is perfect for nature-seeking runners - it is crisscrossed by miles of single track trails and fire roads, some overlooking Boston Basin.

The woods were full of white-throated sparrows feeding on the luminescent black berries of the buckthorn, and more than one redbellied woodpecker, which doesn't have a red belly so much as a gorgeous red cap that gives it the appearance of some safety-minded biker with one of those new stream-lined aerodynamic helmets.

According to surveys, the land holds 1,500 acres of reservoirs, 600 acres of Atlantic white cedar - many of these increasingly scarce trees are more than 100 years old - and thousands of acres of wetlands and upland forest that provide habitats for bald eagles, white-throated sparrows and the Pine Barrens tree frog.