The Outside Story features song sparrows, brown-backed birds who are the most widespread and abundant North American sparrow.

What Does a Song Sparrow Look Like? A song sparrow is coarsely streaked, dark on back and light underneath, with streaks on its sides that join to form a central breast spot. Its crown is brown with a ...

The song sparrow lives in a vertical world. We humans do too, of course. We have staircases, elevators, airplanes and space ships to carry us above our ordinary plane. But the song sparrow has no ...

Come late October/early November, the American tree sparrows descend on Ohio’s meadows. To these plucky little songbirds, Ohio’s winters are its Florida vacation. Tree sparrows breed as far north as ...

Vendors at baseball parks used to hawk their wares with these words, "Buy your scorecards here. You can't tell the players without a scorecard." That's an appropriate approach to identifying the ...

Territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals. First an early warning that matches the intruder's song, then wing waving – a bird's version of "flipping ...

Sparrow season is upon us, and it's time for tips on finding and identifying sparrows. Actually, sparrow season never really ends here. Some species can be found most of the year. Several species are ...

Spring Lane Area, Newburyport: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Dark-eyed Junco, American Tree Sparrow, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Wild Turkey Willowdale State Forest, [East Section], Ipswich: Eastern ...