Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

If you are like me, every time I look out the window it seems like the ground under my bird feeders appears to be moving. The entire area seems to be alive with little brown birds. Each one of ...

The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...

Experienced birders said they’ve learned how to look at a sea of black, when birds such as starlings, red-winged blackbirds, ...

A feisty little bird that's made itself at home in cities worldwide, chirping from rooftops and hopping about in parks and gardens. House Sparrows are small, plump birds with rounded heads and stout ...

I guess something good happened for some combination of eagles and/or owls? I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, ...

Florida is a veritable bird-spotting paradise for experienced ornithologists and aspiring bird-watchers. What’s more, there ...

People have always been interested in where wild animals go, especially when they were a primary food source. Now one of the questions is: why are North American grassland bird populations shrinking?

The number of dead birds found on Hamline’s campus throughout the fall semester has been alarming to students, faculty and ...