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🌎 Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) #SouthAmericanBirds #CentralAmericanBirds | #RufousCollaredSparrow #AndeanSparrow #ZonotrichiaCapensis | #Sparrows #AmericanSparrows #NewWorldSparrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by FranciscoJavierCoradoR🦉 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌎 Rufous-collared Sparrow or Andean Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)

Appearance:
This small sparrow is distinguished by its namesake rufous collar and a grey head marked with bold black stripes. It features a white throat, a small black breast patch, and a streaked brown back.

Distribution:
One of Latin America’s most widespread birds, it ranges from southern Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including Hispaniola. It thrives in diverse environments—from sea level to high Andean peaks—though it is notably absent from the dense Amazon Basin.

Behaviour:
Highly adaptable, it is common in gardens and parks. It forages on the ground for seeds and insects, often in pairs. It is famous for its regional song dialects. Gemini 3 (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: While they mostly eat seeds and ground insects, they are surprisingly clever foragers. They have been observed "stealing" food by picking trapped termites and insects directly out of spider webs! Gemini 3 (Edited)

📷: Photo by FranciscoJavierCoradoR via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-sparrow-ornithology-avian-8313775/

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Sparrow Over The Vineyard
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
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A painting of an attracted sparrow in flight over the vineyard at the Rhine in Germany. Autumn fields of in yellow green in September. Original oil painting on stretched canvas by Jura Kuba art (Jurate Daniel) for sale. 40 x 30 cm, sides are painted, ready to hang.

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

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What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

female house sparrow with a french fry sticking out of its mouth

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

In der Münchner Altstadt sind die Spatzen komplett verschwunden. München zählt bundesweit zu den spatzenärmsten Städten. ÖDP-Chef Tobias Ruff fordert nun Maßnahmen, damit die Stadt endlich wieder spatzenfreundlicher wird.

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passer domesticus
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Ipswich Sparrow, an endangered subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow, at Jones Beach, yesterday. This subspecies breeds almost exclusively on Sable Island, off Nova Scotia. It migrates down the east coast during the winter, but returns to Sable Island to breed, a scenario favoring speciation. It is larger and paler than the nominal species.

A great day to hike through the dunes!

Jones Beach, NY
12.8

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Ipswich Sparrow, a tan and gray subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow, foraging among ground vegetation on a beach dune.

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A Red-Shouldered #Hawk was just terrorizing the #sparrows in our backyard in the East End of #Toronto #2 #birds #hawks #BirdSky

Photo of a red-shouldered hawk on a fence.

A Red-Shouldered #Hawk was just terrorizing the #sparrows in our backyard in the East End of #Toronto #birds #hawks #BirdSky

A photo of a Red-Shouldered Hawk perched on a fence in an older residential neighborhood.

There's a bush on my walk to my mate's house on a Sunday to watch the footie (least said the better concerning today's game 😔) that's always alive with bird chatter. I knew what they were, but thought to stop and carefully insert my phone. Mostly leaves and branches, but five seconds of joy! #HouseSparrows #Sparrows | #Kent #England | #birdsoftheworld #birds

The alternate theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Sparrows, so let me share some pictures I shared almost 2 years back (before ALT text was a big thing) 🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️ #Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography

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a small bird with grey body,brown wings, dark brown cap and a black face, sitting next to a feeder with mixed grains in it.

the bird is sitting on the bar and the feeder is hanging from the top part of the bar outside the window.

2 male sparrows photographed next to the feeder, both perched on the bars outside the window.

another angle of the male sparrow next to the feeder, in the background you can see a house, out of focus.

a female sparrow is looking down at the feeder, to make sense of how to eat from it.

Feeding the birds #sparrows

For the Birds

The weather here in Maynooth was very mild until a couple of weeks ago and with the arrival of inclement conditions I started out out the bird feeders in my garden. I can see the level of the seed from my kitchen window so know when they need filling up. I had one out for a couple of days before the arrival of Storm Claudia with associated torrential rain, but when it passed I was surprised to see the feeders were still half full so I left them.

Last weekend it started to become very cold so I was surprised there were no birds at the feeder. When I went out to look I realized that owing the heavy rainfall some water had got into the seed container, with the result that some of the seeds had started to germinate. This formed a tangled mass of shoots that blocked the gap through which seed is dispensed. The reason the feeders were not empty was not that the birds weren’t hungry, but that no seed was coming out.

I took the feeders inside and cleaned out all the matted seedlings. Then I took them back to the shed to fill up, at which point I knocked over the jar in which I stored the birdseed, scattering the supply all over the floor. There wasn’t much left anyway, but my clumsiness reduced the stock to zero so I was unable to feed the birds despite having functioning feeders.

Yesterday I finally had time to buy some more birdseed. I filled up the feeders as soon as I got home. It was quite interesting to watch the sequence of events. The first to arrive were sparrows who, being small and agile, were quite happy taking terms perching at the feeders. Not long after, however, starlings arrived, squabbling and squawking as they usually do. Starlings are much larger then sparrows and are extremely messy and noisy eaters, their attempts to perch at a feeder causing it to swing and scatter seed all over the ground.

(Incidentally, the term for a large group of starlings is a murmuration, a congregation, a cloud, or a constellation, but there are alternatives for a smaller group like the dozen or so that arrived in my garden. These include a clutter, a scourge, a vulgarity and, my favourite, a filth…)

Some starlings and sparrows started to feed on the ground, as did a very bonny collared dove, walking around calmly amid the flurry of other birds and paying them no attention at all .

At this point the feeder was almost empty.

The last cohort to arrive were the rooks and jackdaws. These are too big to even attempt to perch so their modus operandi is to crash into the feeders to try to break them or knock them down to the ground where they are easier to attack. They didn’t succeed, so they left.

Now the feeders are empty, the birds have gone, and all is quiet. I think I’ll put more food out tomorrow before I go to work. I imagine they’ll be empty by the time I get back home.

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Fox Sparrows made an appearance this week. They are regular residents in my area during the winter. These attractive large sparrows nest from the far north in N. America down to Canadian maritimes in the east. In the west, Fox Sparrows nest down to Colorado in the Sierra Nevada. Interestingly, populations in Alaska winter in the eastern U.S. This is a bird with complex taxonomy across its wide range, with 16 subspecies in 4 groupings. And the distinct groupings have different habitat preferences.
#birds #birding #biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #sparrows
#BirdsofNY

Fox Sparrow standing on a hollowed-out log. Rusty-red Sparrow with thick red streaks below, gray markings on the head and neck

A Savannah sparrow soaks up the sun.

#birds #birding #sparrows #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature

A Savannah Sparrow perches atop a goldenrod plume against an intentionally blurred background of autumn green meadow grasses. The bird is a streaky, medium-sized, short-tailed sparrow with a yellow patch in front of its eye.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #round birds. There were a lot of borbs last time it snowed in Portland. Three of these are #sparrows, too. 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a male Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna), a tiny iridescent green bird with a pale gray belly and iridescent magenta-hued chin & head feathers, perched on the end of a bare branch, rather fluffed up and rounded.

A photo of a fat little song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) perched on the edge of a snow-dusted yellow bird feeder.

A photo of a golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) resting on the top of a snow-covered fence with some snowflakes on the end of its beak, looking a bit poofy and round.

A photo of a dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) standing on the top of a snow-covered fence with its feet buried by snow, looking rather spherical.

Good morning everyone 🌎 ⚘️🍂 🪶 Sie kommt näher. Und dein Frühstück steht ganz oben auf ihrer Ermittlungsakte. She’s getting closer. And your breakfast is now the prime suspect in her investigation. #SerialBirbs #SnackHunter #Sparrows #SparrowSunday #Gebäudebrüter #Spatz

#Sparrows

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