Mystery bird: Northern white-crowned shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacewatch: International Space Station timings and positions] Reference

We have a couple of white-crowned sparrows mixed in with the white-throats and juncos.    From Wordnik.com.  [October morn] Reference

Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

Postfledging dispersal of white-crowned pigeons: Implications for conservation of deciduous seasonal forests in the Florida keys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everglades National Park, United States] Reference

Behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Derryberry Louisiana State University has found that the songs of white-crowned sparrows change over time in response to changing habitats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Songs Change In Response To Changing Habitats | Impact Lab] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Songs Change With The Landscape | Impact Lab] Reference

Three bird species are considered near-endemic: Dorst's cisticola (Cisticola dorsti, DD), white-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha albicapilla) and Mali firefinch (Lagonosticta virata).    From Wordnik.com.  [West Sudanian savanna] Reference

Her team managed to find a rare white-crowned sparrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

White-throated and white-crowned sparrows are possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference

A white-crowned sparrow was singing with March still a week away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference

There is the handsome and lyrical white-crowned sparrow; in my native State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Sometimes we host less common species such as fox sparrows or white-crowned sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference

You may see a red-tailed hawk circling overhead or a white-crowned sparrow in the shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Canada and beyond, there is none I behold with so much pleasure as the white-crowned sparrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

For white-crowned sparrows, at least part of the cue comes from the song's opening whistle, Soha says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

A green and bushy spot a half mile below the village was the home of a number of white-crowned sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The white-crowned sparrows love the shores of these beautiful lakes, which mirror the blithe forms of the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

In our climb up Gray's Peak we found the pipit realm and that of the white-crowned sparrows slightly overlapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

I had paused by the fence and was peeping through at them, hoping to get a glimpse of that rare sparrow, the white-crowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

It ran back on either side, apparently, to the far-off white-crowned peaks in the distance, themselves probably inaccessible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herland] Reference

He was a confiding, pretty little fellow, with head markings somewhat like those of our white-crowned and white-throated sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. The Ranchland of Argentina and Southern Brazil] Reference

In the vale, where some of the head waters of Clear Creek will be seen, the white-crowned sparrows and Wilson's warblers find homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

At the Aylmer lagoons, they found eight greater scaup, some early ruddy ducks and a few smaller birds such as white-crowned sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [CANOE Travel Features] Reference

It will perhaps be remembered that the white-crowned sparrows, so plentiful in the upper valley, were not to be seen in the valley of Moraine Lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The bailiwicks of the pipits and the rosy finches slightly overlapped, as did also those of the pipits and the white-crowned sparrows near the great mountain's base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

A sound of uncouth singing still came from beyond the trees where the copper-coloured natives were crooning songs of admiration and respect to their white-crowned queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenix and the Carpet] Reference

Yes, I had stumbled into the summer home of the white-crowned sparrow, which on the Atlantic coast and the central portions of the American continent breeds far in the North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The white-crowned wands of suppliance, the sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

No white-crowned sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference

"O come! my white-crowned hero, come!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

The white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys.    From Wordnik.com.  [xenogere] Reference

09:29:06: Heard first-of-season white-crowned sparrow in yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Twitter 11-05-2009] Reference