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 ...

Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Co. THE AMERICAN TREE SPARROW has a red-brown cap and a black spot on the breast. The bill is dark above and yellow below. It has two whitish wing bars. This was ...

Vet assistant raises a baby sparrow. Ellen Friedman. On the busiest, craziest morning of the summer, ... He was on the ground, far from a tree, a nest, a mom. What was I going to do?" ...

American Tree Sparrows typically live in northern forests and visit feeders only in winter across southern Canada and Northern united States. Many times, they will scratch for millet underneath ...

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, ...

Tree sparrows are also being trapped and colour-ringed, to determine the numbers that survive in a colony from year-to-year. Individual birds will also be tracked, ...

Tree sparrows sometimes build a domed nest inside the old nest of a larger bird, such as a magpie. Its slightly larger and bolder cousin, the house sparrow, is more common in urban areas.