Say "sparrow" to a Staten Islander, and the house sparrow will most likely come to mind, even though the name is applied to many small, brown, seed-eating birds that nest or migrate across the island.

On March 20th, the world celebrates World Sparrow Day! This international initiative aims to raise awareness about the house sparrow, a common bird in urban environments around the world. But World ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - Arkansas has about 30 species of sparrow, and about 20 of those arrive in early fall and stay all winter. That's a lot of sparrows! They can be tricky to ID, and most ...

Do you like the songs that your great-great-great-grandparents danced to? Some birds apparently do. In a study published this week, a Duke University researcher and his co-authors showed that American ...

"You want to distinguish strong silent types from true wimps that don't signal and won't attack." Akçay and Beecher studied 69 male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) in Discovery Park in Seattle. The ...

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract "the ladies." According to a study of more than 30 years of Savannah sparrows recordings, the birds are ...

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 ...