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Golden-crowned Sparrow
Zonotrichia atricapilla
GCSP · Passerellidae · New World Sparrows
Grassland provisional · from avonet
1heard
The golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) is a large New World sparrow found in the western part of North America.
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
1Detections
1Days heard
0.57Mean confidence
18 SepFirst heard
18 SepLast heard
1,729Stations worldwide
By hour of day
00061218
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
Not enough history
A seasonal chart needs a year of records. This shows daily counts until then.
Where heard
At home1 detections
On outings0 detections
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.
2026-09-18 18:19
9 s
0.57