#House Sparrows

[lunarlotuscove]

House sparrows look so funny when they stand and extend to look at stuff

Thursday November 7th 2024 2:46-3:09pm

[spinus-pinus]

House Sparrow Passer domesticus

11/11/2023 San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California

[jeysphoto]

House Sparrows, Jey Schroeder, 2023

[uwmspeccoll]

A Cheerful-Sparrow Feathursday

Among the most cheerful birds in our neighborhood are the common House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). I wake up every morning with the House Sparrows on my porch telling me to chirrup! And as I walk to work, the Juncos flitting about close to the ground, with their white tail bars and their tiny chipping calls, just starts the day off right.

Both are sparrows, but the House Sparrow, a year-long resident here, is an Old World sparrow (family Passeridae), introduced into North America in the 1850s.The Junco is an indigenous New World sparrow (family Passerellidae). They breed much further north in summer, and while they do winter in our region, in Milwaukee I tend to see them only in spring and fall as they move through. For me, they are harbingers of the changing seasons.

The images shown here are from a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. The volume includes 92 color plates by five wildlife artists illustrating 295 North American species. 

The two birds in the upper left of this plate are male breeding adult and fall immature male Juncos; in the upper right are male and female House Sparrows; at bottom on the ground are female breeding adult and juvenile Juncos.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[cherokeegal1975]

Sparrows.

[quinnfrankephotography]

Some scenes from my walk this morning. It started very cold and ended very nice and warm.

[tokiwartootth]

woaaah bunch of sparrowss ,,

[cdx1016]

Birds of Cove at twilight.

(Viacarad1016)

[captured-in-nature]

[queerautism]

Saw these cute babies while I was out walking the dog!!

[lunarlotuscove]

Lovely doves & lil sparrows

Wednesday February 12th 9:55am-2:49pm

[spinus-pinus]

House Sparrow Passer domesticus

2/16/2023 Disney California Adventure Park, California

[ladyfarona]

It's so easy to miss the small joys in life but I saw a few today.

[heather-rajendran]

House sparrow (Passer domesticus) photos I took yesterday 17/12/2023, West Yorkshire, UK

[benotafraiiid]

yeah so anyway

[quinnfrankephotography]

Some photos from my walk this morning. Below zero but the Spring vibes were everywhere.