Female sparrows invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male`s ability to fill the nest with feathers which serves to insulate the chicks from the cold.
May 8 2013, 2:07 pm
Read MoreNature Forever Society (NFS), which works for the conservation of house sparrows, said Monday that President Pranab Mukherjee supports the cause.
April 1 2013, 8:34 pm
Read MoreThe Bihar cabinet has declared sparrow as the state animal, marigold as the state flower and peepal as the state tree, an official said Wednesday.
April 17 2013, 12:18 pm
Read MoreA survey has confirmed for the first time the widely believed theory that rapid urbanisation has taken a toll on the population of tiny sparrows in the cities all over the country.
March 26 2013, 1:52 pm
Read More: A project to assess the sparrow`s population in the city here has been initiated on the occasion of the World Sparrow Day amidst widely-held beliefs that there has been a decline in the bird`s population.
March 20 2013, 6:54 pm
Read MoreAiming to conserve house sparrows and other neighbourhood birds, the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has launched a public awareness campaign involving students and morning walkers.
March 20 2013, 1:33 pm
Read MoreUS biologists have studied the behaviour in the swamp sparrow species by creating a robot from a dead bird.
February 27 2013, 10:17 am
Read MoreMale Savannah sparrows sing distinctly different songs today than did their ancestors 30 years ago - changes passed along generation to generation, according to a new study.
January 30 2013, 8:47 pm
Read MoreJack Sparrow is the character played by actor Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
September 20 2012, 9:38 pm
Read MoreChanging climate, global warming, growing concrete jungles, depleting greenery and most of all mobile towers dotting the skyline of urban and rural areas are seen as plausible causes for decline of sparrows across the country.
September 15 2012, 6:56 pm
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