GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Lori Slager Wenzel opened Sparrow's Coffee at 1035 Wealthy Street 15 years ago. On Saturday, January 7, she opened the same building she's operated through the best and worst of ...

Boxing Day has its own more violent customs between humans and animals. That’s not the world I choose to live in ...

What a male song sparrow sings in each moment is dependent on what he sang 30 minutes ago and suggests that the birds don't have a 'bird brain,' but incredible memory and recall capacities. Any good ...

How can the most familiar of birds be the source of one of the natural world's greatest mysteries? There, tantalisingly, is the paradox of the house sparrow, the everyday companion of man for the past ...

Over the last decade, the emerald ash borer has devastated communities across the United States. Fighting back against the scrouge, our community has taken down countless infected ash trees and this ...

The house sparrow's Latin name is Passer domesticus. Passer is Latin for sparrow. Domesticus is you in your house and yard — domesticated. If you can't find people at a particular location you're ...

Four of our sparrow species are noted for having a red cap, as the reddish crown-patch on top of their heads is called, at least in breeding season plumage. These red-caps aren’t bright red, like a ...

Since I first started putting up bluebird nesting boxes back in 2016, I have had to think about a much less-beloved bird, the house sparrow, that also loves nesting in these boxes. House sparrows are ...

During their fall migration season, certain sparrows sleep only about a third as much as they do at other times of the year, but they manage to keep up their performance on tests of learning, a new ...

Q I have a problem with house sparrows wolfing down all the seed in the feeders and scaring other birds away. How do I discourage sparrows and encourage the nicer birds? A Nearly everyone who feeds ...