House sparrow Ricardo De la Torre Room106

1. House sparrow Ricardo De la Torre Room106

2. House Sparrows have lived around humans for centuries. Look for them on city streets, taking handouts in parks and zoos, or cheeping from a perch on your roof or trees in your yard. House Sparrows are absent from undisturbed forests and grasslands, but they’re common in countryside around farmsteads. House Sparrows are noisy sparrows that flutter down from eaves and fencerows to hop and peck at crumbs or birdseed. They are flying in and out of nest holes hidden behind shop signs or in traffic lights, or hanging around parking lots waiting for crumbs and picking insects off car grills.

3. House sparrow pictures

4. Nesting • House sparrows are usually with their eggs most of the time until they hatch. • The house sparrow is an easy animal to find in parks trees and in building signs • If you see a house sparrow in its nest then it is taking care of its eggs • So leave it alone because if it is scared off it will never come back and the birds in the eggs will die

5. History • Initially, eight pairs were released in Brooklyn, NY in either 1850 or 1851 by a single person/group of New Yorkers. Apparently they died before they could breed. • In 1854 and 1858, the bird was introduced to Portland Maine • In 1856 or 1857, Charles and Rupert Eaton imported a number of English Sparrows from New York or Massachusetts (not sure which) and set them free in Lower Canard, Nova Scotia. (Piers) They first appeared on Cape Breton island in 1889, and rapidly spread over Nova Scotia. • In 1889, in "The English Sparrow in North America Especially Its Relations to Agriculture," Walter B. Barrows recommended the formation of "Sparrow Clubs" with the objective of destroying HOSP via concerted action, offering prizes, etc. • In 1917, Birds of America noted "The filthy habits of these birds are most annoying. They gather in immense flocks to roost..." and defile houses and cisterns with excrement and nesting materials. "As a flock of fifty Sparrows requires daily the equivalent of a quart of wheat, the annual loss caused by these birds throughout the country is very great.

6. There was a trap to catch a house sparrow

7. male house sparrow Description • The House Sparrow is a small bird measuring 6 to 6 ½ inches in length • brown, gray, black, and white • The back of its head is a chestnut brown and extends all the way to its eyes • has a gray cap and broad white bars on its upper wings • Its chest and belly are grayish-white • In winter the black bib around its throat is hidden under the pale breast feathers

8. Female House Sparrow description • The female's plumage is light in color and streaked with brown • The black bib is nonexistent and the grey crown is missing • juveniles are a deeper brown and the white is replaced by a buff color • The female and juvenile's beaks are yellow while the male's is black in the summer and yellow in the winter

9. Behavior • A house sparrow is a very aggressive bird • House Sparrows will kill an adult bluebird, smash its eggs, and take over the nesting site • They take over abandoned cliff swallow nest. • The house sparrow is the enemy of the house mountain birds and blue birds • It also take the nest of native species • The house sparrow that is not protected by law hunting.