DURHAM, N.C. -- Few singers reach their sunset years with the same voice they had in younger days. Singing sparrows are no different. Duke University-led research reveals that elderly swamp sparrows ...

Sparrows, like humans, are a monogamous species that prefer to live with one partner for their entire life. Of course, they’re also not known for being the most faithful of species in the world, and ...

Male sparrows can tell when their female partner is cheating on them, scientists claim. Sparrows are normally monogamous but, just as with humans, female sparrows can sometimes be tempted to mate with ...

In most species, even those that are traditionally seen as being faithful to each other, there is often a bit of competition between the two sexes around whether or not one can sneak off and have a ...

Scientists from the University of Granada, in collaboration with the South African University of the Witwatersrand and the Percy FitzPatrick Institute at the University of Cape Town, have discovered ...

A male sparrow on the island of Lundy that was included in the study. Talk about keeping your eyes on the sparrow. That age old advice to humans to stay focused is not lost on male sparrows that live ...

It’s almost impossible to realize I once said that when I saw my first house sparrow. Back then, this introduced species was known as the English sparrow. That first visit was sometime in the ’60s.

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 ...

Secondary sexual characters may provide information about individual quality to a partner, which may use it during parental care to strategically allocate resources to the current breeding attempt ...

We investigated dominance relationships and the use of male badge size as a status signal in a mixed-sex flock of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus). Specifically, we tested whether females differ ...