The bird I show here claims a distinction no other bird can match. It is a member of the most widely distributed species of bird on Earth, the house sparrow. This one is a male. It originated in the ...

Of particular interest to me is the house or English sparrow. I have learned to appreciate the striking plumage males display during the breeding season: gray crowns with chestnut borders, whitish ...

WEBVTT YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN HOUSE SPARROWS AROUND YOUR HOME.. THEY PREFER TO LIVE NEAR PEOPLE. SINCE THEY ARE CONSIDERED A NUISANCE SPECIES IT'S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT HOUSE SPARROW NUMBERS ARE NOT ...

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.

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, and ...

During the spring and fall, fox sparrows flash about under the feeders; white-throated sparrows hop back and forth raking the leaves for tiny insect morsels. Once in a while, maybe every 10 years or ...

Let's face it. Rarely does anyone ask me "When will the sparrows get here?" We anxiously await the arrival of the first goldfinches, but hardly anyone searches eagerly for small brown birds with the ...

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 ...

In 1890, a New York bird enthusiast released several dozen starlings in Central Park. No one knows for sure why Eugene Schieffelin set the birds aloft, but he may have been motivated by a sentimental ...

An 1865 stereograph image of the so-called Sparrow-Hawk, taken just two years after the shipwreck was discovered on a Cape Cod beach Public domain via New York Public Library A nearly 160-year-old ...