“We filed suit today because the Army Corps of Engineers has pushed the Cape Sable seaside sparrow to the precipice of extinction," said Noah Greenwald, the Center’s endangered species director. “For ...

The 5-inch Cape Sable seaside sparrow has been listed as an endangered species ever since the Endangered Species Act -- then called the Endangered Species Preservation Act -- went into effect in 1967.

The tiny Cape Sable seaside sparrow, a bird perilously perched on the edge of extinction, is getting closer to vanishing. Helicopter surveys this year over grassy prairies where the bird lives in ...

A captive breeding program for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow could increase the number of wild birds and help manage disappearing nesting habitat that could flood under Everglades ...

The endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, eyes framed by yellow crescents, nests just above the crumbly soil of marl prairies flanking the marshy flow of Shark River Slough in Everglades National ...

Flooding, the suit says, has caused Cape Sable seaside sparrow numbers to drop from 3,000 to about 300 today. One vulnerable population has only a few dozen birds left. Rains in 2013 soaked most ...

“There is no question that the sparrow population west of Shark River Slough is critical to the survival of the Cape Sable seaside sparrow,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke professor of conservation ...

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is endangered, lives only in the Everglades and is blamed for blocking water. But restoration struggle is not its fault.

Two other threats to the Cape Sable seaside sparrow loom. Sea-level rise caused by climate change could swamp nesting lands in a few decades.