Like many in the Northland, I like to feed birds during the winter. Though there are some who keep their feeders stocked throughout the year, I begin the feeding as we reach November. With chilly ...

One of the hardiest sparrows, this is the only one likely to winter in much of the far northern United States and southern Canada, where the dark-eyed junco can also be found. At that season it is ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...

Meet the Russet Sparrow: the lesser-known, but just as fascinating, cousin of the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. With different plumage, habitat preferences and nesting behaviour, there’s more to distinguish ...

Dave Waddington is the RSPB Old Moor's warden who has worked on the site for 25 years. Find out how he's saved Dearne Valley's Tree Sparrow population from local extinction... The RSPB Old Moor ...

BirdWatch Ireland is investigating the recent increase in the population of the tree sparrow, particularly on the east coast and in adjoining counties. It says the increase is "all the more dramatic" ...

Eurasian tree sparrow, Passer montanus (protonym, Fringilla montana), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the Eurasian sparrow, the (European) tree sparrow or, in the United States where it has been ...

Special nest boxes are being placed in north Dorset to encourage rare tree sparrows to breed there, the Dorset Wildlife Trust says. The tree sparrow is red-listed because of concerns over its ...

* Description: A small bird, some 12.5- to 14-cm long, it has a rich brown-colored head, with a hint of copper. There is a black patch on the cheeks and a double white bar across the brown wings.

At around 13cm long, tree sparrows are smaller than house sparrows, and can be differentiated by two narrow white bars across their wing feathers while house sparrows have only one. They have a ...