Posted by: Sandy Steinman | September 25, 2023

Long-studied sparrow at UCSC Arboretum displays complex social life

  Santa Cruz Sentinel reports

 A recent UC Santa Cruz study examining the golden-crowned sparrow, which winters annually at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden, shows that the colorful birds have complex social relationships that are disrupted when a close flockmate is lost. The recently published study is one of several scientific papers written on the species by UCSC researchers over a span of more than two decades.

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