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 ...

This sparrow (mono­­typic genus) feeds on bare or sandy ground. When flushed, it flies to a high perch. Few other sparrows are likely to fly high overhead during daylight. They call both when ...

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

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow isn't nicknamed the “Goldilocks bird” for nothing: In order for this little sparrow to survive, its habitat conditions have to be just right. Though the bird has evolved ...

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 ...