The situation is so bad for eastern bluebirds that the North American Bluebird Society recommends removing and destroying house sparrow eggs from bluebird boxes and trapping adult house sparrows.

Of particular interest to me is the house or English sparrow. I have learned to appreciate the striking plumage males display during the breeding season: gray crowns with chestnut borders, whitish ...

Recently I mentioned that house sparrows can destroy bluebird eggs and even kill the young. The “Sparrow Spooker” is a device that discourages sparrows from going into bluebird boxes. Anything ...

Why does the egg size of house sparrows vary so much? Isn't it always an advantage to be big? Perhaps not surprisingly, baby sparrows that hatch from large eggs are consistently bigger their small ...

It’s almost impossible to realize I once said that when I saw my first house sparrow. Back then, this introduced species was known as the English sparrow. That first visit was sometime in the ’60s.

Despite being well-adapted to urban life, house sparrow numbers are falling. A study in open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution finds that compared to sparrows living in the country ...

Birds, for the most part, do not live in nests. These complex structures, sometimes meticulously assembled for more than a month, tend to be used for the express purposes of incubating eggs and ...

This time of year can be overwhelming for gardeners and birders alike, but try to find some time to create a new habitat for our feathered friends.

A new study has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to insulate the chicks from the cold ...

Aside from witnessing bird activity with your own eyes like I did, a few telltale signs that birds have nested in your dryer vent include a musty smell in your laundry room, clothes taking longer to ...