House sparrows were brought to the United States to devour crop-damaging insects. In the mid-1850s, 100 house sparrows were released in New York City. In 1869, they were released in Cincinnati ...

Though house sparrow numbers in the United States are down — to 80 million today, from 400 million in 1966 — they are still one of our most common birds, and we’ve had an explosion of them ...

The sad fact for the house sparrow is that in the last 15 years, their numbers are decreasing rapidly. Urban areas are expanding constantly – a fact that should help the sparrow because it ...

The European House Sparrow has a story to tell about survival in the modern world. In parts of its native range in Europe, House Sparrow numbers are down by nearly 60%. Their fate in the U.S. and ...

If climate change places us in the realm of the uncanny or “unheimlich” (unhomely) — via the vast impacts of extreme weather and the uncontrollable power of wildfires and floods — the common ...

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.

House Sparrows were introduced in Brooklyn in 1851. They expanded rapidly to become one of the most common species in the U.S. and Canada.