Back yard Birds - sparrow0498.jpg --> House Sparrow

Query: Birds & nature magazine

Result: 4105^th of 32671

Subject:	Back yard Birds - sparrow0498.jpg --> House Sparrow
Poster:	Mark Cassino (cassino@net-link.net)

CassinoPhoto-CommonSparrow0498-Perching on branch.jpg

File size : 50897 bytes File date : 1998:04:24 09:00:00 Resolution: 617x493 Jpeg process : Baseline Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: 22 Apr 1998 22:51:55 GMT

Back yard Birds - sparrow0498.jpg --> House Sparrow

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a member of the Old World sparrow family Passeridae. It occurs naturally in most of Europe and much of Asia. It has also followed humans all over the world and has been intentionally or accidentally introduced to most of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa and Australia as well as urban areas in other parts of the world. In the United States it is also known as the English Sparrow, to distinguish it from native species, as the large American population is descended from birds deliberately imported from Britain in the late 19th century. They were introduced independently in a number of American cities in the years between 1850 and 1875 as a means of pest control.

--
Mark Cassino
Kalamazoo, MI
cassino@net-link.net
http://www.net-link.net/~cassino
Images Of Common Birds & Plants
Fourth Update: April 11, 1998

Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho...

Comments

emily bell
im on this website for a science progect. i love these pictures.

Birds & nature magazine
4105/32671

^o^ Animal Pictures Archive for smart phones ^o^