Which meant a nonnative bird was killing our native birds. House sparrows, originally from Europe and Asia, were brought to Brooklyn in the 1850s to control caterpillars.

House sparrows have thrived near grain farms, LeBaron said. However, with the rise of pesticides and industrialized agriculture, there’s less habitat for sparrows to survive.

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 ...

The house sparrow is actually a weaver finch. In Birds of Ohio, Jim McCormac notes that it "belongs to a small family of 37 species known as Old World sparrows, none of which are native to North ...

The sparrow flourishes in cities since food is abundant and the sparrow is an expert in finding it. With urban expansion, the question of the sparrows’ declining numbers remains.

A new study aims to clarify the status of the non-native European House Sparrow, using 21 years of citizen science data.

The scourge of house sparrows and starlings can be blamed on a misguided 19th century New York club. Its members released into the U.S. every bird species mentioned by Shakespeare.

Where have all the sparrows gone? For millennia the house sparrow has thrived alongside humanity, now its halved population offers a warning. By India Bourke If climate change places us in the realm ...

Lest there be any confusion, the cheery and sociable house sparrow is not a native of North America nor a relative of our native sparrows like the American tree sparrow that visits winter feeding ...

Sparrows, blue tits and starlings top the list of birds spotted in UK gardens this year –but some once-common species are now in steep decline, experts have warned. The RSPB’s Big Garden ...

The greenfinch may be declining because of a parasitic disease, but nobody knows – still – the reason for the decline of the house sparrow.

"When even a bird as common as the House Sparrow is experiencing population declines, this is probably a reflection on the state of the environment," says Berigan.