What do you think of when you hear the word “sparrow?” If someone had asked me this as a child, I would have said it’s a ...

The white-crowned sparrow is common throughout North America, from northern Alaska to central Mexico. But here in Florida, it ...

A chipping sparrow perches on a caged bird feeder. This individual is in nonbreeding plumage. Note that it has a rather ...

About a month ago, before a succession of columns concerning assassin bugs, I featured the white-crowned sparrow.

Ornithologists recognize dozens of subspecies of these adaptable birds. Learn how to identify a chipping sparrow. Meet the white-crowned sparrow and white-throated sparrow. This bird constructs a ...

Plans for a captive-breeding programme to help the rare and localised Florida Everglades subspecies of Seaside Sparrow has ...

The prognosis for both the bird and its habitat is grim without intervention," said Audubon Florida executive director Julie Wraithmell, who pointed to a grasshopper sparrow breeding program in ...