On a quiet, 30-acre property near West Palm Beach, Fla., 19 Florida grasshopper sparrows are starting to sing. These tiny songbirds bask in the breezes that flow through their custom enclosure. They ...

On the dry prairies of the Sunshine State, there’s a tiny, camouflaged bird known as the Florida grasshopper sparrow. Each one weighs about as much as three U.S. quarters yet has to survive against a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Until the major parts of Freshkills Park are open for general use, the public gets to see the "landfill to landscape" transformation in increments during community events.

The first time you find a grasshopper sparrow you wonder how many you have passed by over the years without knowing. You watch it sing and realize that you have probably been ignoring its thin, ...

The clock is ticking. Any minute, he could get called away for a momentous occasion – the birth of his brother’s first child. But at present, Andrew Schumann has other firstborns on his mind: 18 ...

Nature isn’t always what it seems – a chatty little grasshopper sparrow taught me that. For the first ten or so years that I worked at the Kankakee Sands Nursery, I was always looking down, either at ...

MIAMI, May 13 (UPI) --There is hope for the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow. This week marked the first time the species has been bred and hatched in captivity. The first hatchling came on the ...