The little birds have seen a major population decline. Photo: National Park Service by Lori Oberhofer. The first time I saw a Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the Everglades, I was not impressed. This ...

A tiny sparrow is causing big problems in Florida for local authorities that have struggled to agree on effective conservation tactics. The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is only 5 inches long and endemic ...

The birder in your life likely covets “The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, Ecology and Conservation,” from the University of Minnesota Press. The two-pound doorstopper has 1,145 color images of ...

It’s easy to lump all sparrow bird types together: “Yep, looks like a sparrow to me.” You can find at least 33 species of native sparrows across the country. And while their plumage won’t sweep you ...

Bird-watchers call them “chippies,” little brown birds known as chipping sparrows that flock to backyards, woodlands and fields. The birds actually breed in deep East Texas and from the Edwards ...

Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

The latest issue of the Iowa Nester newsletter, detailing current efforts to determine the status of Iowa's breeding birds, can be found here: Included are maps showing changes in the breeding status ...

A bird rare to Colorado appears to have made its home at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area north of Fort Collins. Biologists from Bird Conservancy of the Rockies confirmed the presence of male and female ...

LOXAHATCHEE — A group of Central Florida residents has gone south for organic meals, bedding freshened often and virtually never a cloudy day. “When you are an endangered species, you deserve every ...