Of all of the birds that I have ever seen skittering about in thickets, song sparrows are among the sneakiest. They are designed for stealth, and they are very good at it. It is simply a byproduct of ...

Researchers developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay for the simultaneous measurement of 11 types of estrogen from song sparrows using derivatization with ...

April is known for many happenings. It is the month of warming temperatures that lead to thawing. (With a deep snowpack, this could cause flooding.) But it also is the month when we see many migrant ...

Through the years, Elizabeth and I have never written about or prepared artwork for song sparrows. It’s not that we’ve ignored the sparrow tribe. There have been columns with illustrations of field ...

Most birds in Teller County head south and to lower elevations during the harsh winter season, but some diehards hang tough through the cold and snow. The song sparrow is one of those hearty species ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

Any parents out there will be familiar with the unique sort of misery that results when your kid has a new favorite song. They ask to hear it over and over, without regard for the rest of us. Well, it ...

His complex solo of buzzes, trills, and notes can win a young male song sparrow a mate for life. But just learning to sing in the first place reaps him another life partner of sorts. When a young male ...

Like many birds, male white-throated sparrows belt out songs to defend their territories and attract mates. And until the year 2000, one particular song stood out as the most popular white-throat tune ...

Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know the ...

Seaside sparrows at Cooks Beach have their own “dialect.” Rowan University researchers monitor their songs as a way to track salt marsh health. The salt marsh at Cooks Beach hosts many seaside ...