The clay-colored sparrow deserves more attention than it gets. It is one of our most common nesting sparrow species. Common doesn't mean frequently reported, however. In fact, the clay-colored sparrow ...

Clay-colored sparrow, Spizella pallida (protonym, Emberiza pallida), Swainson, 1832, also known as the clay-colored chipping sparrow, photographed on the Katy Prairie Conservancy, Houston, Texas.

Sparrows are not usually very exciting. They are to birding what calculus is to mathematics. If you are really into math, you’ll love the challenge and elegance of calculus as you work to understand ...

STILLWATER — For the past month and a half, fanatics have been flocking to Saratoga County to catch a glimpse of a new-to-town celebrity. No, it’s not a musician renting a house near the track, nor an ...

Just about any patch of cover will have a sparrow. This includes backyards, ditches, field edges, shelterbelts, pastures, prairie and wetlands - but not deep woods. Sparrows are classic “edge species, ...

There’s been a light coating of snow on the ground recently and when I throw white millet seeds on top of it in the front yard at times more than 40 birds, mostly juncos and white-throated sparrows, ...

A Duke team trained a computer to identify up to 200 species of birds from just a photo. Given a photo of a mystery bird (top), the A.I. spits out heat maps showing which parts of the image are most ...

A golden plover, a clay-colored sparrow, two great egret, a semipalmated plover, and two lesser yellowlegs were in Hadley. Eight common mergansers, six blue-winged teal, a sanderling, a pectoral ...

Birders will be looking for many "little brown jobs" this month, including the clay-colored sparrow. Late October is prime time for seeking what birders call LBJs (little brown jobs). This is a term ...