A wonderful, kindhearted Australian Shepherd, named Promise, recently found a vulnerable House Sparrow baby near her house. And of course, like any gentle, loving canine, she decided to bring this ...

Winter in the Rockies reduces the number and diversity of birds. We do get an influx of four junco subspecies: pink-sided, Oregon, slate-colored and white-winged. They winter in our area, ...

The American tree sparrow and some really cool ducks will be leaving soon. The spring bird migration is really ramping up, as we’re hearing an audible increase in blackbirds and seeing waterways ...

MOST WINTERS, a few sparrows visit my yard, feeding on the seeds I scatter on the ground near my bird feeder. These particular sparrows have long tails, rusty crowns and ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...

Essentially, house sparrows mate only with other house sparrows, and Eurasian tree sparrows (Passer montanus) mate only with other Eurasian tree sparrows, thus keeping these populations separate.