Zoo teams transformed the yards outside the Bird House into a thriving, wildflower-filled garden that attracts birds and ...

Starting Monday, you can visit the Smithsonian National Zoo’s newly renovated Bird House. The six-year $69 million dollar project features more than 70 different bird species in aviaries where ...

House sparrows can be found in California's Death Valley, other passer species on Asian mountain peaks topping 13,000 feet. Most of these species are gregarious and will form large flocks.

Brian Evans, an ornithologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, puts identifying bands on a house sparrow during a demonstration Saturday.

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

Despite their cute appearance, house sparrows are invasive and can cause more harm than good. Here's what to do to keep them away from your birdhouses.

Though house sparrow numbers in the United States are down — to 80 million today, from 400 million in 1966 — they are still one of our most common birds, and we’ve had an explosion of them ...

Let’s bear house sparrows in mind when building and developing. “We can avoid plastic grass, gravel and too much asphalt, ditch insecticides and yes, put up with the occasional mosquito bite.

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 ...