Migratory songbirds are fickle breeders, especially since the marshes where they mate are flanked by shore homes, roaring ...

USA TODAY determined the rankings by adding the number of times each bird was listed as most-sighted for each state, each month. For example, over six seasons, the house sparrow was listed as top ...

Did you know: Song sparrows can be paler, darker, redder, grayer, larger or smaller, depending on your location. Ornithologists recognize dozens of subspecies of these adaptable birds. Learn how ...

But one species, Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow ... inside their skulls. But when it comes to the sparrows, “there’s something really fascinating about these birds that they can manage ...

Which meant a nonnative bird was killing our native birds. House sparrows, originally from Europe and Asia, were brought to Brooklyn in the 1850s to control caterpillars. By 1870, their ...