One bird everyone can count on seeing annually is the house sparrow, also called the English sparrow. The bird's name is a misnomer because it doesn't live in houses (although it will nest in boxes if ...

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.

WEBVTT YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN HOUSE SPARROWS AROUND YOUR HOME.. THEY PREFER TO LIVE NEAR PEOPLE. SINCE THEY ARE CONSIDERED A NUISANCE SPECIES IT'S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT HOUSE SPARROW NUMBERS ARE NOT ...

Of particular interest to me is the house or English sparrow. I have learned to appreciate the striking plumage males display during the breeding season: gray crowns with chestnut borders, whitish ...

FORT SILL, Okla., Feb. 25, 2016 -- There are two types of black-bibbed sparrows on Fort Sill right now, one being native, and the other an unwelcome immigrant. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it is the ...

Let's face it. Rarely does anyone ask me "When will the sparrows get here?" We anxiously await the arrival of the first goldfinches, but hardly anyone searches eagerly for small brown birds with the ...

The bird feeder in my neighbor’s yard was a magnet. Dozens of sparrows at a time. I wished they’d eat only from his feeder, however, my backyard was the next course. One morning I stood at my back ...

Q: I'm monitoring bluebird boxes in Adams. In the past three weeks, I've found a dead swallow in an empty nest box, then yesterday a dead wren in another. — Nancy S., Adams A: I have encountered this ...

AFTER several years’ careful observation in Southern New Jersey, I find that winter gives us a phase in the life and character of birds quite unlike that displayed in summer by the same species, yet ...