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 ...

When mature male white-crowned sparrows duel to win a mate or a nesting territory, a young bird just doesn’t get much respect. Researchers found that older male white-crowned sparrows don't put much ...

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 ...

A new study has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to insulate the chicks from the cold and ...

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 ...

Doug Nelson can tell where he is in Oregon by listening to the trills at the end of a white-crowned sparrow’s song. It’s a neat trick, but “It’s not a useful skill,” Nelson, an ethologist at Ohio ...

In the hugely popular video game Angry Birds, frustrated victims of egg theft vent their wrath by turning themselves into living bombs and blowing up their piggie tormentors. Of course, the ...