Few people reading this story will ever see a Florida grasshopper sparrow, a small, brown, drab bird with behaviors of a ghost, a roadrunner and something else. “I call them my mouse bird ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus), the rarest bird in North America, is a non-migratory subspecies found only in the dry prairies of south-central Florida. The ...

A Florida grasshopper sparrow carries some food. (Photo courtesy of FWC) Bird bird bird, bird is the word. … Everybody knows that bird is the word! When I was in college at Troy State University ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow was near extinction only a few years ago. The recent release of the 1,000th captive-raised ...

When scientists decided to move the breeding population of Florida's grasshopper sparrow into captivity, they were taking a gamble, the Guardian reported. The species had been steadily dwindling as ...

The Brevard Zoo is working to help boost the population of the critically endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow by breeding and then releasing the birds back into the wild. This breeding season ...

The size of a stack of sticky notes, a critically endangered bird species is making a huge comeback. The Florida grasshopper sparrow is native to Florida, found nowhere else on the planet, and named ...

Reefgen's Grasshopper robot is ready for deploying into Washington's Puget Sound where it's helping with an eelgrass ...

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“It’s just a lot of hard work by a whole lot of people,” said Gray, who has worked on the Florida grasshopper sparrow for about 30 years and was present for the 1,000th release in July.