Song Sparrow
| Melospiza melodia | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows) |
Melospiza melodia
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows)
This common sparrow was the subject of one of the very first in-depth life history studies, by Margaret Morse Nice. Often found near people but not as regular a feeder visitor as other backyard birds.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Lincoln's Sparrow 2024
- What's in a Name? 2023
- Dee Dee Nana and Walter's first official Bird Walk 2023
- Record-breaking Snow and Climate Change 2023
- First Robin of Spring 2023
- Alaska, Part 9: Birding Our Way to Seward 2022
- Recognizing Sparrows, Part 1: Juncos and Sparrows with Streaked Breasts 2022
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza 2022
- Song Sparrows! 2021
- Our Not-So-Far-Flung Correspondents: Letter from Aleda 2021
- Spring Update 2021
- April Update 2021
- Fall Migration Update 2020
- What to Make of a Diminished Thing 2020
- By the Dawn's Early Dark 2020
- Brown-headed Cowbird, Part 2 2020
- Margaret Morse Nice 2020
- Spring Is Springing! 2020
- Hunkered Down at Spinney's 2019
- Babies! 2019
- Gypsy Moth Spraying 2018
- Review: Song Sleuth, the bird song identification app 2017
- The World I Choose to Live In 2017
- Unusually pale Song Sparrow 2017
- Warbler Walk Update 2017
- A Walk at Park Point 2017
- First Warbler Walk of the year 2017
- A Walk on the Western Waterfront Trail 2016
- Hog Island Audubon Camp 2016
- Mornings in a Sharp-tailed Grouse Observation Blind 2016
- Savoring a Slow Spring 2016
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- Fall migration update 2015
- Morton Arboretum Canada Geese 2013
- Brown Creeper 2012
- Field Sparrow 2012
- Twins and Double Yolks 2012
- Dawn Chorus 2008
- Signs of Spring (Early Spring 2008) 2008
- August Day at Hawk Ridge 2007
- DVD Review: Robert Baldwin's A Loon Story 2007
- Brown-headed Cowbird 2007, Part I 2007
- Helping birds in cold weather 2007
- Cowbirds, Part I 2006
- September Sparrows 2006
- Migration Update 2006
- Spring Advancing 2006 2006
- Bird Conservation Alliance meeting 2005
- Wilson Bulletin 2004
- Russ's Cherry Tree 2003
- Le Conte's Sparrow 2003
- Ice Storm 2003
- Song Sparrow 2003
- Early Spring Report 2003
- Chickadees and West Nile Virus 2002
- Mid-summer Sounds 2002
- Sparrows 2002
- White-throated Sparrow 2002
- Niagara Falls 2002
- Sparrows 2002
- Song Sparrow 2002
- Cruisin' with Spring 2002
- Canada Warbler and other Fall Birds 2001
- Familiar Places and Bluebirds (Robert Frost's Fragmentary Blue) 2001
- Kinglets, Creepers, and Other October Treasures 2000
- End of Spring 2000
- Fox Sparrow 2000
- Birds in the Movies 1999
- Birdathon! 1999
- Altruism 1999
- October Bird Sounds 1998
- Ovenbird 1998
- Cemetery Birds 1997
- Denizens of Darkness 1997
- Spring Arrives 1996
- Hawk Ridge 1995
- Breeding Bird Survey 1995
- Roller Blading Birder 1995
- Big Day 1995 1995
- Ovenbirds 1995
- Song Sparrow (Placeholder) 1993
- Bird Songs 1992
- Sparrows 1990
- Summertime 1989
- Bird Song Awareness Week 1989
- Migration Update 1989
- Lincoln's Sparrow 1989
- Birds of Washington, D.C. 1989
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 1988
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1988
- This year's drought 1988
- Savannah Sparrow 1988
- Some Common Bird Songs 1988
- Margaret Morse Nice's Song Sparrows 1988
- Onomatopoetic Bird Calls and Mnemonics 1987
- October Sparrows 1987
- Summer's End 1987
- Kim Eckert's birding class 1987
- Lincoln's Sparrow 1987
- Pileated Woodpecker 1987
- A Birder's Guide to the Movies 1986
Sound Recordings
- Warbling Vireo: 2 minutes of singing 2024
- Western Meadowlark: 7 Songs 2024
- Wood Thrush: 9 songs 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 7 1/2 minutes of drumming and calls 2024
- After the Ice Storm, in the Snow 2023
- Early spring: 14 minutes 2023
- Tundra Swans 2023
- Early morning in early July in Port Wing, Wisconsin 2022
- American Tree Sparrow singing on migration 2022
- White-throated Sparrow: 5 minutes of singing 2022
- White-throated Sparrow: 4 songs 2022
- Dawn from my office window 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- April 17 Morning Song 2022
- Wood Thrush! 2021
- Fifty Minutes of Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Evening Grosbeaks respond to Merlin 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Morning Song, June 21 2020
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Half Hour of House Wren Dawn Singing 2020
- Red-eyed Vireo: 5 minutes of song 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- American Goldfinch, song bout 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- American Crow: Loud caws in my backyard 2020
- Northern Flicker: 8 minutes of calling 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 2 2020
- Morning Songs, May 1 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- White-throated Sparrow: 1 minute 2020
- White-throated Sparrow: 25 seconds 2020
- Robin singing at midmorning 2020
- Northern Flicker: 2 calls and drums 2020
- Persistent Young American Redstart 2019
- Common Yellowthroat: 8 songs 2019
- Sharp-tailed Grouse: 18 minutes of displaying 2019
- Dawn on Hog Island, 2018 2018
- Song Sparrow: 7 songs 2018
- Song Sparrow: Entire singing bout 2018
- Song Sparrow: 21 songs from Hog Island 2018
- Northern Cardinal 2017
- Red-eyed Vireo, almost 3 minutes of song 2017
- Hog Island sounds, June 4, 2016, 7:20 am 2016
- Hog Island sounds, June 4, 2016, 8:30 am 2016
- Dawn in a Sharp-tailed Grouse blind 2016
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009
- Ellis Hollow Dawn 2008
- Song Sparrow singing in Port Wing 2001
- Song Sparrow---3 songs 2001
- Song Sparrow---5 songs 2001
- Sedge Wren 2001
- Gadwall: 17 "Burp" calls with other sounds 2001