Category Archives: sparrows

Scientific Name: Zonotrichia Atricapilla Diet: Golden-Crowned Sparrows forage in lawns, gardens, and fields, where they find grasses, flowers, buds, seeds, shoots, and insects. They eat more insects during the breeding season, and feed insects to their young. Habitat: Golden-Crowned Sparrows … Continue reading →

Scientific Name: Zonotrichia leucophrys Diet: White-Crowned Sparrow eats seeds, bugs, fruit, and grains. They eat a variety of bugs including spiders, wasps, bees, beetles, and caterpillars. They also eat elderberries and blackberries for fruit, and barley and corn for grains. … Continue reading →

Scientific Name: Passer domestions Diet: The House Sparrow eats seeds, human food, crops, and especially insects in the summer. The crops they eat include corn, wheat, and sorghum. They also eat crabgrass, ragweed, and buckwheat. The young House Sparrows eat … Continue reading →

Scientific Name: Melospiza melodia Diet: Song Sparrows eat a variety of seeds and bugs. The bugs they eat include grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, weevils, crane flies, dragon flies, and spiders, and the seeds and plant foods Song Sparrows eat include wheat, … Continue reading →

Scientific Name: Junco hyemalis Habitat: Dark-Eyed Juncos live in a variety of places.  They can be found in brushy areas, city parks, suburban areas, forest areas, greenbelts, towns, and yards. Dark-Eyed Juncos live in open coniferous and deciduous forests. They … Continue reading →

Scientific Name: Pipilo maculatus Diet: Spotted Towhees eat many insects in summer such as weevils, lady bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, moths, bees, caterpillars, and other arthropods. In winter Spotted Towhees switch to eating mostly seeds and plant food like acorns, berries, … Continue reading →