On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a Steller’s jay in a spruce tree. On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me 2 twigs of mistletoe. Cindy Murray has been a Master ...

The white-crowned parrot Pionus senilis (von Spix, 1824) is distributed throughout Middle America, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico coastal area from Tamaulipas (Mexico) to northern Panama. We used ...

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I clearly remember the day when my wife called me at work shortly after she took up birding as a hobby. She was excited to describe a bird that was visiting our backyard feeder. Small and brown, she ...

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 ...

American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea). The quintessential winter sparrow and a reminder that, even after the leaves have fallen and the prairies turned gray and brown, there’s wildlife to hear ...

White-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). A big sparrow with unexpected biology and an easy song mnemonic. Look for the yellow spot just ahead of its eye, the namesake white throat, and white ...

On March 20th, the world celebrates World Sparrow Day! This international initiative aims to raise awareness about the house sparrow, a common bird in urban environments around the world. But World ...

When you feed songbirds during the winter months sparrows are likely to come in droves. The little brown and tan birds are seed eaters and they relish the small seeds commonly found in wild bird mixes ...

The song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) is a year-round resident, most common today in central and eastern Kentucky, absent or in low numbers west of the Green River drainage. In the Kentucky Breeding ...