Recent studies have uncovered some of the clever ways our avian neighbors are making the most of the urban environment.

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

The Marches, Shropshire: Boxing Day has its own more violent customs between humans and animals. That’s not the world I choose to live in The sparrows are a shuffling, chirruping shadow in the bushes, ...

A house sparrow rests quietly among the green leaves and orange berries. Its soft feathers blend naturally with the colors of the bush. Scenes like this capture the peaceful rhythm of everyday ...

Ari and Junianto began hunting birds as children in the foothills of Java’s Mount Slamet, near their home in Sambirata village. Trapping birds for the illegal wildlife trade became their main ...

Mark Patrick Taylor has received funding from The Australian Research Council. He has also previously received funding from New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for research into ...

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 ...

Review & Outlook: The President reverses a Pentagon decision from last week and says he'll deliver weapons to Ukraine. The 12-day war between Israel and Iran featured an unprecedented cyber campaign ...

Seaside sparrows at Cooks Beach have their own “dialect.” Rowan University researchers monitor their songs as a way to track salt marsh health. The salt marsh at Cooks Beach hosts many seaside ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants. Florida grasshopper sparrow chicks peer up out of their ground ...