Birds can nest in inconvenient spots like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets. There are rules against disturbing ...

Though house sparrow numbers in the United States are down — to 80 million today, from 400 million in 1966 — they are still one of our most common birds, and we’ve had an explosion of them ...

Yes, house sparrows are an invasive bird species. A nonnative to North America, they were introduced from Europe to New York in 1852. ... House sparrows build nests year-round.

Say hello to the house sparrow, a most sociable bird By Gary Clark , Correspondent Updated June 5, 2020 11:52 a.m. Male house sparrows are handsome even though they do drive us crazy.

Because house sparrows are a non-native species, they lack some of the protections our native birds have. As a result, you can remove the sparrows’ nest or eggs.

A House Sparrow building a neat round nest in a tree is an odd and seldom-seen sight. Recently, in western North Dakota I watched a male House Sparrow busily constructing a round grass nest in the ...

“House sparrows are extremely sociable birds and like to nest in small little colonies,” Dunkerton notes. Ideally, the bricks would sit anywhere from 6 to 15 feet from the ground.

Found at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, this nest demonstrates female house sparrows’ preference for nesting in holes. It came from the exhaust pipe of a British Royal Air Force ...

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

The sparrows discovered a slight crack just below the eaves where they could get into the house walls. It’s a little unsettling to hear birds moving about in your walls. We couldn’t get at them ...

It is prudent to make sure that if you are putting nest boxes up, you are taking steps to limit access to house sparrows. Another pro tip: beware of bees, or more specifically, wasps.