When I became interested in bluebirds and met bluebird aficionados, I quickly learned that house sparrows are regarded as feathered devils. House sparrows usually are city birds or country birds, one ...

Judging from reader email, house sparrows are a bane for backyard bird-watchers because the little birds crowd out songbirds, such as chickadees and titmice. It's certainly the case at our house, ...

Since I first started putting up bluebird nesting boxes back in 2016, I have had to think about a much less-beloved bird, the house sparrow, that also loves nesting in these boxes. House sparrows are ...

It’s almost impossible to realize I once said that when I saw my first house sparrow. Back then, this introduced species was known as the English sparrow. That first visit was sometime in the ’60s.

Judging from reader email, house sparrows are a bane for backyard bird-watchers because the little birds crowd out songbirds, such as chickadees and titmice. It's certainly the case at our house, ...

We put up some bluebird houses around our field last spring. Chickadees promptly moved in only to be displaced this year by house sparrows - no bluebirds yet! This past weekend I spent part of a sunny ...

I doubt any species in this country is more overlooked than the house sparrow. In fact, they are actively despised by many because they are an exotic, invasive species. What’s more, they can bomb your ...

House sparrows – those little brown and gray birds that flash mob the bird feeder – are common and easy to see. They’re quarrelsome, noisy, and when they’re on the ground, they move in vigorous hops ...

The sound of spring is the chirping and twittering of birds as they call to each other. This week, while working in the garden, there was the sound of persistent chirping overhead. As I glanced up a ...

Hyderabad: Many recall from their childhood seeing house sparrows chirping around their homes, nesting in rooftop corners but that is not the case today. So called 'modernity' with air pollution, ...

Next time you spot a house sparrow chirping in your balcony, click a photograph and send it to the zoo on its WhatsApp number (7546811116) or post it on its Facebook page (Patnazoosavesparrow). You ...