Other estimates range from 520 million to 1.6 billion. There is no question, however, about their distribution: everywhere except Antarctica. House sparrows stir mixed emotions. They compete ...

For example, over six seasons, the house sparrow was listed as top bird 76 times. Immigrants to North America, house sparrows are thought to have spread across the U.S. with the help of freight ...

Females lay two to six white eggs, maybe with dots of red ... But I’d observed house sparrows divebombing the back door, which I’d never seen before, and then learned that while brown-headed ...

When she joined our family last September, I thought it would be a good idea to feed the birds hulled sunflower seeds so that there wouldn’t be hulls under the feeder for her to chew.