Fossil of Sparrow-Sized Bird Offers Biting Insight. By Thomas H. Maugh II . Jan. 31, 2004 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... Longirostravis means bird with a long rostrum, or beak.

Blue sparrow mystery: Unique bird confounds experts. By RICHARD SHEARS FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 16:34 EDT, 26 April 2009 ...

Inside Russell Greenberg’s office, just past the east entrance of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., were three large, colorful photographs, each a portrait of a sparrow, each ...

Using thermal imaging, Greenberg’s team calculated that the Atlantic sparrow loses 33 percent more heat through its larger beak. "The species has a fairly unassuming beak," says Symonds, who was ...

A part of the male sparrow’s brain called the HVC grows from around 100,000 neurons to about 170,000 — nearly doubling in size — during the bird’s mating season.

Learn what a male and female house sparrow looks like, what foods this bird eats, what it sounds like, and why birders dislike this species.

Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate. Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an early bird species ...

The bird was the well-known house sparrow. You might ask who is not familiar with the common sparrow. The answer is, children growing up today.

Just over 135,000 people spotted 1,961,033 birds in the national bird count this weekend. The common sparrow tops the list again, followed by the the great tit and the blue tit. The blackbird, which ...