“What should I do to keep house sparrows from tormenting wrens and bluebirds? Should I take the birdhouses down?” asks Ruth Armstrong of Niles, Michigan. Many people love to attract nesting bluebirds.

A simple length of fishing line could help give Bermuda’s bluebirds a better chance of holding off house sparrows that aggressively take over their nesting sites. Sparrows have threatened the native ...

Something Wild hosts Dave Anderson, of the Forest Society, and Grace McCulloch, of NH Audubon, both admit that the Eastern bluebird is their favorite songbird. With nesting season just around the ...