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By the 1880s, house sparrows had colonized Lincoln, Blair and Beatrice, but it took until 1895 for the species to be found in places like Gordon in northwestern Nebraska.
Anyone with sparrows in their garden in the UK is being asked to take immediate action amid a shocking decline in numbers. BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science program was yesterday told that numbers in ...
Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...
The wren, meanwhile, continued his rounds, moving from nest box to nest box, laying claim to them all. A female wren, if one ...
Therefore, we here explore temporal shifts in genetic diversity, genetic structure and effective sizes of seven Dutch house sparrow populations.
The clay-colored sparrow has in the past year become one of Stillwater’s newest feathered residents. The small, brown, drab ...
One year, a sparrow built a nest under the nets over the strawberries. She mastered getting in and out and obviously enjoyed ...
A summer of birdwatching reveals nesting mysteries, territorial truce, and daily song as local species — from phoebes to ...
House sparrows, 8 to 12 days old, were removed from the nest and placed in a small paper bag in a wire cage. Long forceps were used to feed the nestlings moistened puppy food. The young sparrows ...