Lest there be any confusion, the cheery and sociable house sparrow is not a native of North America nor a relative of our native sparrows like the American tree sparrow that visits winter feeding ...

House sparrows are an invasive species, introduced from England in 1850 to help control both an outbreak of a native elm ...

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 did not ask to be in North America. They were imported to New York City from England in the early 1850s, allegedly to control inchworms munching on trees in Central Park.

An accomplished ornithologist, and an enthusiastic friend of the sparrow, George N. Lawrence, Esq., informs us that, so far as he could ascertain, not a single tree in all New York lost its ...

One ounce. That’s the average weight of an adult house sparrow. While these birds might lack the size and bluster of, say, European starlings or Canada geese, these miniscule individuals might ...

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 ...

SPARROWS may feel commonplace, flocks of them chattering together and whooshing from tree to bush to bird feeder, crowding out the smaller, more colourful birds in your garden.

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 ...

Red-listed species at risk of extinction include the swift, house sparrow, house martin, tree sparrow, starling, greenfinch, skylark and cuckoo. The song thrush, wren, tawny owl, curlew, bullfinch and ...

While we may not give them a second look, sparrows have distinguished lineage. They lend their name, Passer, to the order Passerines, which comprises more than half of the world’s bird species.