FILE - American white pelicans at Oregon's Lake Klamath. Populations of the birds have declined due to drought in some areas of the state, and have climbed at colonies on the Lower Columbia River.

A white-crowned sparrow alights on Thursday on a plant on the bluffs above the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz ... duller white head stripes and birds that breed from Alaska to ...

Perhaps one of my favorite places in winter is across the river at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton.