house sparrows
Common backyard birds
House sparrows is the plural of house sparrow, a small brown and gray bird native to Eurasia but now found worldwide.
They thrive near human habitation, nesting in building eaves, signs, and other structures.
Despite their name, they're not true sparrows but weaver finches.
House sparrows were pecking at crumbs on the sidewalk.
- birdhouseMounted shelter for songbirds
- wingsLimbs for flight
- beakHorny avian mouthpart
- hopSmall, quick jump
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
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- flock birdsstarlings, geese, crows, pigeons, blackbirds
- synanthropesbrown rats, pigeons, cockroaches, bed bugs, German cockroaches
- invasive speciesinvasive species, lionfish, emerald ash borer, noxious weeds, kudzu
- commensalsremora, remoras, pilot fish, oxpecker, oxpeckers
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