Learn what a male and female house sparrow looks like, what foods this bird eats, what it sounds like, and why birders dislike this species.

In a recent study, researchers estimated 862 million birds in the sparrow family have been lost since 1970, comprising the single largest proportion of the 3 billion birds lost overall.. House ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in ...

A house sparrow or a sandhill crane? Never mind how these birds look, the names are on different planes. Maybe the scientific name will spice things up. Let’s see. Passer domesticus means ...

Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...

As nonmigratory birds, house sparrows stay put all year, much to the chagrin of native songbirds who migrate and are displaced from their nesting sites. 4. House finch ...

Which meant a nonnative bird was killing our native birds. House sparrows, originally from Europe and Asia, were brought to Brooklyn in the 1850s to control caterpillars.

The bird was the well-known house sparrow. You might ask who is not familiar with the common sparrow. The answer is, children growing up today.

All three species like to nest in the boxes that I have provided, but the sparrows are larger, stronger and more aggressive than the other birds. What to do about them is a topic for another day.