I mostly write about native birds, species that have existed in California since long before European settlement. However, there are also a few species of local birds that are not native to the New ...

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.

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...

"Oh, that’s a pretty little bird! I wonder what it is." 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 ...

There were two species, however, that discovered North America was very much to their liking, and they are now found in great abundance from coast to coast. They are the house sparrow (also known as ...

For several reasons, swamp sparrows didn’t fit into the first two parts of this series, and European house sparrows really don’t belong on this continent, even though they have been here since the ...

DEAR JOAN: I would like to provide some additional thoughts about the writer’s comments you published recently on house sparrows and millet. While it is known that house sparrows might attack nests ...

The other day, when I picked up my cup from the coffee maker that sits on the countertop next to the sliding glass deck door, I looked out and saw a house sparrow. It was the first one I'd seen at our ...

I’VE SEEN RAIDERS CAPS in Vietnam and bootlegged Michael Jackson tapes in rural Cambodia. In Brazil, I tried (unsuccessfully) to buy a kid’s T-shirt without an English inscription. But globalization ...