Fewer than 2,500 Western snowy plovers remain along the entire West Coast of the United States, and Alameda is lucky enough to host several of the threatened birds. Sharol Nelson-Embry introduces the ...

The cheery and sociable house sparrow is more closely associated with ... On freshly molted (nonbreeding) bird, the blackish and reddish regions obscured by gray feather tips.

The American tree sparrow often occurs in flocks of up to 50 birds. In habitat and behavior, they are much like field sparrows, but American tree sparrows are more frequent at bird feeders.