For some birds, a wide-open field is the only place they are comfortable, and they spend their life avoiding trees. Some of these field birds probably never sit on a tree branch. Their special niche ...

This is the last in my series of articles on sparrows. I hope that you have enjoyed learning about the Dark-eyed Junco, Spotted Towhee, Clay-colored Sparrow and now the Lark Sparrow. I first observed ...

As if all of that wasn't enough to fulfill our summer birding desires, an unofficial report was making the rounds of a nesting pair of lark sparrows in the vicinity of the French Creek Reservation in ...

From sparrows to blue jays, each species of wild bird has its own personality, Kelly Thon said. “People tend to think blue jays are bullies,” Thon said. “But I saw a docile mourning dove chase the ...

A long-delayed and very compressed migration is now at full tide. The first barn swallow of the season showed up at my place west of Gilby, N.D., on Thursday evening. The week also produced sparrows ...

THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER normally signals an annual invasion in New Jersey. Who are these mysterious invaders? None other than sparrows — and lots of them. Sparrows constitute a substantial percentage of ...

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated ...