This is a native sparrow with a haunting, melodic song.
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White-throated sparrow
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Posts: 194 12-03-08 18:56 Flowering Annual |
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Posts: 18006 12-03-08 19:02 Quiz Coordinator |
Sort of similar to the European sparra Julia, I love his little white beard.
  
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Posts: 8326 12-03-08 19:35 |
What a pretty little bird and another great piccie.
 
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Posts: 195 12-03-08 19:38 Flowering Annual |
Yeah, that's his white throat. Also notice the yellow spot by his beak. Are European sparrows the same as English or House sparrows? If so, this sparrow
is not only prettier, I think, but way less aggressive. House sparrows over here (and there are a lot of them) kill bluebirds and take over their nests. So
we don't like them here
 . I'm going to try again this year with bluebirds and put up a house and
hope that the house sparrows don't kill the babies. The main non-natives we have over here are house sparrows, house finches and starlings.
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Posts: 8583 13-03-08 04:38 Established Tree |
What a fabulous picture, Julia!!! It seems the bird will hop across the screen, any minute.
I guess they don't come up this far. I've never seen one.  
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Posts: 19631 13-03-08 09:04 Retired Auctioneer |
Another stunning picture of a lovely bird - I love its yellow eyebrows.
I had no idea that the European version - your English Sparrow / our House Sparrow - was such a little thug! Apparently they are more so where you are, though: ...though this tendency has occasionally been observed in its native habitats (particularly concerning House Martins), it appears to be far more common in habitats in which it has been introduced, such as North America.They've been in serious decline in N.W. Europe, and nobody really knows why, but this is interesting: Various causes for its dramatic decrease in population have been proposed, one of the more surprising being the introduction of unleaded petrol, the combustion of which produces highly toxic compounds such as methyl nitrite.The stuff I've quoted is from Wikipedia: the full article is here. 
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Posts: 12073 13-03-08 15:38 Established Tree |
Now that's one sparrow I'd love to have visiting my garden. Another superb photograph Julia.
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Posts: 6613 22-03-08 18:55 Established Tree |
Lovely pic Julia
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Posts: 13456 23-03-08 23:51 |
What a lovely little bird .... much more interesting than our house sparrows .
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