White-crowned Sparrow

Zonotrichia leucophrys

White-crowned Sparrow photographed by Mark Curtis
Ventura · February 28, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 6.1M open records.

Records by month. January, 585,797 records. February, 515,606 records. March, 515,131 records. April, 728,835 records. May, 961,836 records. June, 247,823 records. July, 182,933 records. August, 112,985 records. September, 371,228 records. October, 853,614 records. November, 532,692 records. December, 539,957 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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