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 ...

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 ...

With cold weather approaching quickly, we are on the lookout for the American Tree Sparrow, Spizelloides arborea. They will soon be arriving from their summer breeding grounds in the far northern ...

In the summer, the tree sparrow nests on the ground in Alaska and across northern Canada, including much of the brushy territory around Hudson Bay and north across the tundra to where the ice begins.

Lest there be any confusion, the cheery and sociable house sparrow is not a native of North America nor a relative of our native sparrows like the American tree sparrow that visits winter feeding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't get your American tree sparrows crossed with your house sparrows! Get to know these chatty brown birds this fall.

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 ...