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 ...

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

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.

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 bird-obsessed woman has changed her name to SPARROW – and even launched a career making tiny fancy dress outfits and little wigs for her feathered friends. She said her therapist credited her ...

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.

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.

Puffin' bird: Sparrow is forced to smoke a CIGARETTE by cruel yob. Calls have been mounted for Victor Avdeev, 18, to be arrested over images; He posted pictures of the sparrow with a cigarette and ...

ANOTHER LIFE: IN LAST WEEK’S COLUMN, a lonely blackbird launched his territorial song ...

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 ...