Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

Explore the world’s most beautiful sparrows — from the common House Sparrow to the rare Dead Sea Sparrow. Discover their colors, habitats, and the charm that makes these tiny birds unforgettable.

The white-crowned sparrow, a bird endemic to North America and once so local to San Francisco that they once had neighborhood accents, has begun its springtime call. The magnificent magnolia trees in ...

WARREN — Joel Eckerson cries out to his companions across the marsh at Jacob’s Point. “I knew it,” he yells. “I’ve got a nest here.” A saltmarsh sparrow nest. There’s good reason why Deirdre Robinson, ...

The chirping of birds echoed through a packed lecture hall in Hong Kong, though there wasn't a feather in sight. Residents, some pressing the sides of their throats or contorting their bodies, ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...

Most birds in Teller County head south and to lower elevations during the harsh winter season, but some diehards hang tough through the cold and snow. The song sparrow is one of those hearty species ...

Sparrows are difficult to identify with most of them appearing plain brownish to grayish. The green-tailed towhee adds some zip to its gray body with unique greenish-yellow highlights on the wings and ...