White Crowned

Mystery bird: Northern white-crowned shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli ❋ Unknown (2011)

In some species, such as white-crowned sparrows, the young of the year do not even make their first migration in the company of experienced adults. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Postfledging dispersal of white-crowned pigeons: Implications for conservation of deciduous seasonal forests in the Florida keys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Derryberry Louisiana State University has found that the songs of white-crowned sparrows change over time in response to changing habitats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Derryberry, who earlier discovered that female white-crowned sparrows preferred the slower new songs to the chirpy old ones, is now a researcher at Louisiana State University. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As vegetation reclaimed formerly cleared land in California, Oregon and Washington over the last 35 years, male white-crowned sparrows have lowered their pitch and slowed down their singing so that their love songs would carry better through heavier foliage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 385 bird species attributed to the ecoregion include nine near-endemic species and two endemic species: the black-browed babbler Malacocincla perspicillata and the white-crowned shama (Copsychus stricklandii) (Table 2). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Three bird species are considered near-endemic: Dorst's cisticola (Cisticola dorsti, DD), white-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha albicapilla) and Mali firefinch (Lagonosticta virata). ❋ Unknown (2007)

We have a couple of white-crowned sparrows mixed in with the white-throats and juncos. ❋ Jhetley (2007)

Sometimes, bird behavior is largely genetic -- the white-crowned sparrow sings its distinctive song even when raised in isolation, for example, and chickens seem to be born with a pecking instinct, certain ducks with a diving one. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For some, such as the white-crowned sparrow and zebra finch, only one song dialect is learned during early development and then precisely reproduced during each mating season. ❋ Steven Johnson (2004)

The defile climbed past countless massive shoulders of rock, making its way toward white-crowned peaks that hovered like sharp clouds in the far distance. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1996)

Beyond their forested slopes, a white-crowned mountain towered ragged and rocky against the lowering sky. ❋ A. C. Crispin (1990)

Atlas the Titan become Atlas the Mountain, and still his head, white-crowned with snow, and his great shoulder far up in misty clouds, would seem to hold apart the earth and the sky. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

I was waiting for a [facial], but all he [managed] to do was give himself a [white crown]. ❋ Grant Drew (2022)