Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

How much does it matter where you are born, or whether you are heavy or light, if you are a house sparrow? Researcher Kenneth ...

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House sparrows are everywhere, it seems. Snacking on discarded food in the streets of the world’s cities and towns, popping up around seed spills on farmlands, and nesting in the eaves of our ...

In celebration of National Bird Day, wildlife activists in Odisha's Basudevpur village have installed artificial nests to help conserve house sparrows. Initiated by Anchalika Bikash Parishad, over ...

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 ...

Major South Asian cities like Mumbai, Karachi, Kolkata, Dhaka and Lahore offer a mix of glossy skyscrapers, bustling shopping centers, shanty slums and massive traffic jams like any other metropolises ...

The house sparrow is about 15 centimeters long and weighs about 25–35 grams. It has brown and black striped upperparts and gray undersides. The male has a black throat patch and gray skullcap, while ...