A sparrow specific to California (and Baja California) is the beautiful, medium-sized Bell's sparrow. Many in our group had therefore never seen it and it was therefore a "target species" for most of us. The first time, I was probably the only one who saw (and photographed) the sparrow, but at the second time, here in the Sonora Desert, everyone got to see it. The Bell's sparrow occurs in shrubs, especially in sagebrush, where it looks for seeds and insects, often with its tail in the air.