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 ...

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 ...

Read on to learn more about the different kinds of calls and songs your pet bird or friendly neighbourhood sparrow might be using. Also known as “communal noise”, the loud, collective sounds ...

The cheery and sociable house sparrow is more closely associated with ... On freshly molted (nonbreeding) bird, the blackish and reddish regions obscured by gray feather tips.

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 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 ...

A true connoisseur of coastal living, MacGillivray's seaside sparrow spends its days munching on tiny crabs, insects and seeds in Atlantic coastal marshes. This little gray-brown bird — one of four ...