Deep in the Australian outback, lead-contaminated dust drifts through the streets of Broken Hill, blanketing playgrounds, vegetable gardens, and people's homes. The town is built around one of the ...

Despite being wild birds, house sparrows occur almost everywhere that people live, and are almost never found where people are absent. Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in ...

World Sparrow Day is celebrated every year on March 20. The day is dedicated to raise awareness about the declining population of the avian species and the need to protect them. These small, yet ...

A flock of sparrows gathers around a field of ripening rice in the southeastern city of Daegu on Aug. 6, 2026, a day ahead of ...

The simple sparrow, which moves about our houses with its cheerful hopping and chirping in the mornings, has been a symbol of peace in our daily lives. But with the last few decades gone by, the ...

When I first began bird watching (“birding”) in Washington State, I quickly learned that some birds are more equal than others. Some, like the house sparrow, Passer domesticus, are alien invasive ...

For many animals, living with others has obvious benefits. Social animals can hunt in packs, gain safety in numbers or even learn from each other. In some cases, they can even solve problems more ...

The house sparrow was declared Delhi’s state bird in 2012. Though facing multiple threats, the sparrow is categorized as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List — a species evaluated as not needing ...

“Crows and sparrows belong to our clan,” declared the great Tamil poet and freedom fighter Subramanya Bharati long ago. But do we see any sparrows nowadays in urban areas, not to speak of big cities ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow was on the brink of extinction but now numbers are rebounding in the wild. Birds bred at a zoo have been released onto prairies, where they continue to reproduce. A ...