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Passer is a genus of sparrows, also known as the true sparrows. The genus contains 28 species and includes the house sparrow and the Eurasian tree sparrow, two of the most common birds in the world. They are small birds with thick bills for eating seeds, and are mostly coloured grey or brown.
Immigrants to North America, house sparrows are thought to have spread across the U.S. with the help of freight trains. They’re well-adapted to humans and have been for hundreds of years, making ...
Tumbes sparrow: Rhynchospiza stolzmanni (Taczanowski, 1877) 10 Yungas sparrow: Rhynchospiza dabbenei (Hellmayr, 1912) 11 Chaco sparrow: Rhynchospiza strigiceps (Gould, 1839) 12 Rufous-winged sparrow: Peucaea carpalis Coues, 1873: 13 Cinnamon-tailed sparrow: Peucaea sumichrasti (Lawrence, 1871) 14 Stripe-headed sparrow: Peucaea ruficauda ...
An audio recording of a house sparrow. The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of 16 cm (6.3 in) and a mass of 24–39.5 g (0.85–1.39 oz).
Sparrows are a form taxon composed of unrelated but similar-looking songbirds. They eat mostly small seed, usually live on the ground but also like to perch in shrubs, and usually have rather dull plumage colors. "Sparrows" as used by scientists refers to the family Passeridae, the Old World sparrows.
The golden-crowned sparrow is one of five species in the genus Zonotrichia, a group of large American sparrows. [2] It has no subspecies. [3] It is a sister species with, and very closely related to, the white-crowned sparrow; studies of mitochondrial DNA show the two evolved into separate species very recently in geologic time.
An invasive problem bird is the English sparrow, aka the house sparrow, which is not even a true sparrow, or what we call a native sparrow. It disrupts the nesting of several species of North ...
The terms "passerine" and "Passeriformes" are derived from the scientific name of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus, whose genus is the Latin word for sparrow. [7] Formerly this meant the songbirds of Europe. Now it also includes perching, non-singing birds from the Americas. [8]