The opening frame of “The Sparrow in the Chimney” evokes a kind of art-directed ideal of country living: In a spacious, rustically textured farmhouse kitchen, mid-afternoon sunlight pours in ...

In a recent study, researchers estimated 862 million birds in the sparrow family have been lost since 1970, comprising the single largest proportion of the 3 billion birds lost overall.. House ...

Often dismissed as the archetypal little brown birds, the sparrow family deserves a lot more recognition and attention. I love looking at little brown birds — that’s how you learn to see.

A life is a life, if it is but a sparrow’s, and so greatly were my sympathies aroused that I would have dispatched human help to the scene of the accident; but the tree was tall and slender, and ...

The American tree sparrow often occurs in flocks of up to 50 birds. In habitat and behavior, they are much like field sparrows, but American tree sparrows are more frequent at bird feeders.