The birds have been busy, building shelters of straw and grass. Up close, the real shape of the "pom-poms" becomes clear: ...

One of the most common birds in urban areas is the house sparrow, which is not technically a sparrow in the ornithological sense, but a weaver finch. They are a bird that originated in Eurasia ...

More information: Maria C. Tello-Ramos et al, Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds, Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adn2573 ...

Nest-building is not just instinctive but is a skill that birds learn from experience, research suggests. Scientists filmed male Southern Masked Weaver birds in Botswana as they built multiple ...

Al Weaver: Hello. Nice to be here. Jace: So, your turn as Curate Leonard Finch began in the second episode of Grantchester , when you appeared with a little pencil mustache.

First of all, he could identify the rail rider as a songbird, probably in the weaver finch group and possibly a house sparrow. The presence of a black throat patch would indicate an adult male ...

The house sparrow is actually a weaver finch. In Birds of Ohio , Jim McCormac notes that it "belongs to a small family of 37 species known as Old World sparrows, none of which are native to North ...

Weaver birds are the artisans extraordinaire of the bird world. As their name suggests, they fashion intricate nests out of plant material, carefully threaded and woven into a solid structure. All ...