Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

On March 20th, the world celebrates World Sparrow Day! This international initiative aims to raise awareness about the house sparrow, a common bird in urban environments around the world. But World ...

Say "sparrow" to a Staten Islander, and the house sparrow will most likely come to mind, even though the name is applied to many small, brown, seed-eating birds that nest or migrate across the island.

A sparrow is a sparrow is a sparrow — right? Wrong! During summer in Mid-Missouri, we have no less than eight sparrow species nesting here before wintering far south. They include grasshopper, Henslow ...

"You want to distinguish strong silent types from true wimps that don't signal and won't attack." Akçay and Beecher studied 69 male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) in Discovery Park in Seattle. The ...

Do you like the songs that your great-great-great-grandparents danced to? Some birds apparently do. In a study published this week, a Duke University researcher and his co-authors showed that American ...

Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know the ...

In contrast to the Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) and Song Sparrow (M. melodia), vocal studies of the congeneric Lincoln's Sparrow (M. lincolnii) are essentially lacking. To provide comparative ...

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract "the ladies." According to a study of more than 30 years of Savannah sparrows recordings, the birds are ...