House sparrows drive me crazy. They crowd around bird feeders, suet cakes and bark butter while forcing birds like chickadees to wait in line to get nourishment. When I place mealworms in feeding ...

It’s almost impossible to realize I once said that when I saw my first house sparrow. Back then, this introduced species was known as the English sparrow. That first visit was sometime in the ’60s.

The house sparrow's Latin name is Passer domesticus. Passer is Latin for sparrow. Domesticus is you in your house and yard — domesticated. If you can't find people at a particular location you're ...

A new study has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to insulate the chicks from the cold and ...

Peter Rabbit's eyes twinkled when Jenny Wren said that she must look her old house over to see if it was fit to live in. "I can save you that trouble," said he. "What do you mean?" Jenny's voice was ...

On a sunny July morning I chanced upon a baby bird sitting in front of the garden door. It was a fledgling house sparrow, 2 weeks old and a couple of days shy of flight. While she seemed quite content ...

The diminutive house sparrow stands just five inches tall and weighs only an ounce or two. The noisy little birds, known for their shrill chirp, certainly aren’t imposing when spotted at feeders or ...

FORT SILL, Okla., Feb. 25, 2016 -- There are two types of black-bibbed sparrows on Fort Sill right now, one being native, and the other an unwelcome immigrant. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it is the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Evolutionary biologists have shown much recent interest in the costliness and signal content of colorful plumage displays in birds. Although ...

According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Great Backyard Bird Count, the eighth most-frequent feeder bird is the house finch. If you feed birds, you're probably familiar with this colorful species ...