Don’t take the birds in your backyard for granted. Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count director for ...

A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by scientists. Birds rarely change their chirpy little tunes, and when they do, it’s ...

During their fall migration season, certain sparrows sleep only about a third as much as they do at other times of the year, but they manage to keep up their performance on tests of learning, a new ...

Most of the time when I mention sparrows, birders think mostly about the non-native house sparrows and the harm that they are doing to some of our native birds. But it’s important to remember some of ...

A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or the sparrow? Credit...Michelle Mildenberg Supported by By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Ms. Hoffstot is a freelance writer living on a farm in western Pennsylvania ...

The birds were singing something strange. Ken Otter and Scott Ramsay first noticed it in the early 2000s, when they were recording white-throated sparrows in Prince George, a city in western Canada.

The dark-eyed junco is our common winter visitor, one of the sparrows that knows how to hide and survive. Sparrows know how to hide, even in the winter when hiding places are scarce. These little ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...

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