English Sparrow
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
or house sparrow, small bird, Passer domesticus, common throughout most of the world. English sparrows are 4 to 7 in. (10-18 cm) long, with short, stout bills.
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I read once that House Sparrows spread so far and wide in the US by hitching rides on the newly-built railway systems.
English sparrow
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Local Name: English Sparrow
Breeding Range: Global
Length: 14cm.
Falklands Population: ~1,000 breeding pairs
World Population: unknown ...
It is also known as English sparrow to differentiate from the native North American Sparrow.
Salt Lake City, California and San Francisco were few of the cities where House Sparrows were introduced.
The swans you are seeing are mute swans, and like English sparrows and starlings, they are not native to North America, but an introduced species.
All wild birds (except pigeons, English sparrows and starlings) are protected by federal and state laws. You may not trap, kill or possess protected species without federal and state permits.
Neither is the pigeon, the starling or the English sparrow.
These last three birds have been highly successful exploiting the habitats of our cities and surrounding suburbs, ...
Owls, hawks, foxes, cats, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and cowbirds; competition for nesting sites from house wrens, catbirds, English sparrows and crows.
Habitat ...
when this alien reached Nova Scotia is unrecorded, but Piers noted that, "In the '50's, somewhere about 1856 or 1857, Charles and Rupert Eaton, of Lower Canard (Kings County), large potato growers and exporters, imported a number of English Sparrows ...
 See also: Sparrow, House Sparrow, Starling, Woodpecker, Finch
  
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