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Sentence Examples Old World sparrows are small to medium sized, stocky birds with a short bill with a decurved culmen and short legs. The branches serve as a handy perch for the sparrows and mourning doves that frequent my city bird feeder. I am taking a keen interest in bird watching and feeding a troop of greedy sparrows who are devouring everything I put out there. Keep your eyes peeled for verdins, crissal thrashers, black-throated sparrows, Abert's towhees, and black-tailed gnatcatchers, to name but a few. He fed sparrows and grosbeaks on a seed tray mounted on a pole to be visible from his windows. Of course, we still have our year-round chickadees, titmice, cardinals, woodpeckers, mourning doves and song sparrows. House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it. In Missouri, sparrows and cowbirds arrived at nests at 13.5 and 14.7 min before sunrise, respectively. Closing my eyes to better appreciate the feelings crashing through me, I found that I understood the blue jays, robins, sparrows, and finches. We cannot recall ever having such large families of cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, English sparrows, blue jays, titmice and chickadees. I have no idea whether sparrows eat skirret, but they were definitely sniffing around it the other night. Set in wide margins they provide food and cover for wildlife, while the high grass shelters partridge, tree sparrows and skylarks. Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail. Humans introduced Old World sparrows to the Nearctic, Neotropical and Australian regions. These sparrows breed in native shrub-steppe habitats or in small patches of unplowed grass and shrubs near agricultural fields. The answer to the problem of protecting plants while not trapping the wings of sparrows on strands of cotton is quite simple. The last straw was when a flock of sparrows appeared making the noise of bursting crackers. House sparrows were injected 0.05 ml of 0.2 mg phytohemagglutinin in one wing web and 0.05 ml physiological water in the other wing web. House sparrows are approximately 30-g passerine birds that are gregarious during and outside the breeding season. That's counting the birds like starlings, rock doves and house sparrows, introduced species most birders don't even count! Show More Sentences Montezuma offers a much greater diversity of birds, including various swallows, sparrows, and songbirds not mentioned here. Such a host of sparrows twitter that it reminds one more of a stream joyful sound than of a compound of little utterances. A single robin, pecking about on the garden step for his breakfast, will scatter a host of sparrows. A host of sparrows create such a rioting as renders sleep or repose perfectly out of the question. Stanford's roster included a golden eagle, a northern harrier, and a California thrasher, plus a host of sparrows. With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot. But the bright, blindingly yellow-white sun glared down onto Nikrya, and sparrows shot from tree to tree, chattering in high-pitched chirps. When the Osprey moved on, we turned our attention to the numerous sparrows moving around the field and hedgerow. We found some interesting sparrows including vesper and a first year chipping sparrow going into winter plumage. Blue Jays and crows seem to have moved in of late, overpowering the persistent chirps of the chipping sparrows and resident cardinals. House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach. Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables. The birds are looking distinctly broody, and there's been a pair of hedge sparrows doing a bit of courting outside my window all day long. If the hedgerow can support some hedge sparrows, a declining species, then so much the better. John also reared and released 12 starlings, 11 house martins, eight blackbirds, three bluetits, three hedge sparrows and a ferret. Known predators of Old World sparrows include hawks, owls, snakes, house cats and raccoons. Songbirds like warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks, and sparrows are far from the only birds that display dimorphism. A drive down a local road flushes out all kinds of sparrows, warblers, and finches. Close relatives to Old World sparrows are pipits, accentors and possibly finches. It turned out to be a large roost of house sparrows all trying to jam themselves into two small trees making a racket. Show More Sentences Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding. For the record, we also saw lots of catbirds, sparrows, and other New York birds of summer. Grey-headed sparrows are relatively nervous birds and if you scare them away a few times they will go off and look elsewhere for a nest site. The seeds of this columbine are sought after by small birds, such as song sparrows, juncos, and many others. The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay. Finches, grosbeaks, titmice, nuthatches, sparrows, and cardinals will beat a path to your door. Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas. All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves. A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers. My own small back garden contains the live nests of wrens, blackbirds and sparrows, so there will be scores more on the campus. Woodpeckers are drumming, sparrows are singing, and around the North Shore people are venturing out into their yards to garden. Through the glass door to the step outside, two dozen yellowhammers and sparrows picked up seeds thrown on the snowy concrete. A black coat-tailed drongo like a late night dinner guest is chased across the water by two enraged house sparrows. Common predators of house sparrows include cats and other mammalian predators, birds of prey, and owls. I've seen sparrows, dirty pigeons, doves, screeching seagulls, nasty crows and the occasional hawk. A cat scales a glass sharp wall and drops beside its shadow under an apple tree, stalking anxious sparrows with the first sun. Build a brush pile near your feeder to make sparrows, towhees, and other shy birds feel more at home, but be sure it won't harbor roaming cats. Ducks, sparrows, pelicans-sketches and finished piecesmingled in the vast dissimulation of birds. Young Herbert was picking up small stones and throwing them at the sparrows twittering in the hedgerows scattering them in all directions. Song sparrows are sedentary and defend territories in both breeding and non-breeding seasons. Show More Sentences This area is a haven in the fall for all sorts of birds, including blue grosbeaks, indigo buntings and an array of sparrows. Out back I watched two house sparrows and two white-cheeked bulbuls fruitlessly chasing a large white moth. The pint-size vesper sparrows darting in front of the truck seem to punctuate his point. Edge it with shrubs to provide leaf litter where brown thrashers, towhees, and white-throated and fox sparrows can scratch for insects. Eggs were bought for threepence a dozen by the Temuka Roads Board for sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds. House sparrows living inside an airport in New Zealand discovered that if they flew in front of the electric eye, the doors would open. In the mid 1960s deaths from salmonellosis were reported in greenfinches and house sparrows feeding at bird tables in gardens. Henslow's sparrows were present in five of the six tracts and dickcissels present in all six. Robins, song sparrows, vesper sparrows, and swallows are not absent, except as breeding birds. A couple of sparrows who had been peacefully resting on the grey rocks abruptly flew off. Game birds, mockingbirds, robins, and sparrows enjoy the juicy, sticky red fruits. Growing up, I was fascinated by birds and my mother encouraged this by letting me feed sparrows on the fire-escape outside our window. Budgies, finches, sparrows and canaries are only a few of the more than one hundred kinds of birds people keep in their apartments. Smaller birds such as pigeons, thrushes, jackdaws, robins and sparrows would also have been seen on a regular basis. Crows and sparrows have been known to attack innocent passers-by who happen to stroll near their nests. The road descended through weedy habitat full of sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds. Others tootled about Oodnadatta, surprised to see sparrows again, visiting the Pioneer Graveyard, and browsing in the railway building's museum. Juncos, the dark gray birds with the white bellies, are also sparrows, but they are so distinctive that you don't need a description from me. Many birds feed comfortably on a platform, especially the sparrows, juncos, towhees and doves that are referred to as ground feeders. The sparrows were merry along the curbstones, taking bath after bath in the water and ruffling their feathers with delight. Show More Sentences House sparrows and Eurasian tree sparrows have been the most successful of the introduced sparrows. If you live near open fields, you are quite likely to have tree sparrows visit your feeders. Other passerines, such as blackpoll warblers, American tree sparrows and lapland long-spurs, may be similarly affected. They wish all house sparrows and European starlings would just go away, and I am sure that their attitude regarding non-native ducks and geese is no better. International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated. Across the street, in a chinaberry tree, a gang of sparrows are making a racket. It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion. The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge. Dried redshank seeds were eaten by the sparrows, and linnets. He who cares even for the sparrows will certainly care for us. The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common. As many of you already know, cowbirds parasitize other, smaller birds by laying their eggs in other birds' nests, often those of thrushes, sparrows or warblers. The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes. Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins. Other victims have included young treecreepers and house sparrows. Each spring, waves of warblers, sparrows and a variety of shorebirds settle on the barrier island's seven miles of deserted beach and vast maritime forests. I pulled over at Schaar's Bluff, turned off my car and just sat and listened, beyond the bluebirds and meadowlarks you could hear tree sparrows and red-winged blackbirds. If you haven't attracted bluebirds or tree swallows by late spring, close your box up or take it down, but do not let English sparrows, vicious predators, take over any box. The birds are looking distinctly broody, and there's been a pair of over-sexed hedge sparrows doing a bit of heavy courting outside my window all day long. Most folks start with a feeder or two and quickly find themselves engrossed with the resident sparrows, finches, and woodpeckers that eagerly accept the offerings. Show More Sentences While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows. The first thing he wanted to show me, once I rattled into his driveway, was the pasture where the vesper sparrows had built their nest and laid eggs early that spring. In winter, our resident population is increased by large numbers of birds from the Continent, forming flocks on farmland, often with other finches, buntings and sparrows. For instance, song sparrows here in Bel Air have highly visible, dark streaking on the white underparts and long, white streaks on the sides of the crown and chin. Black oil sunflower seeds are relished by chickadees, evening grosbeaks, cardinals and finches, and are less attractive to non-native sparrows and starlings. Remember, though, if you think you have 50 song birds daily or 20 chipping sparrows, you should polish your binoculars, review your field guide and take a second look! English and Russian swear words flew in the air like sparrows. At this site, house sparrows often nest close to available food sources. We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own. Geese, ducks, sparrows, and hawks are heading south in numbers. The latest species to be documented at the former farm fields was a woodcock, in addition to kestrels, owls, sparrowhawks and tree sparrows. Tree sparrows can be readily distinguished from male house sparrows by a black spot on large white cheeks, and a chestnut crown. Rats on the island of Norderoog in the North Sea stalk and kill sparrows and ducks. As a result, some of the participating farms recorded large numbers of tree sparrows. House sparrows do not hold territories, but they defend their nests aggressively against intruders of the same sex. In colder areas house sparrows build specially created roost nests, or roost in street lights, to avoid losing heat during the winter. House sparrows can breed in the breeding season immediately following their hatching, and sometimes attempt to do so. Most house sparrows do not move more than a few kilometres during their lifetimes. House sparrows have been observed stealing prey from other birds, including American robins. True bugs, ants, sawflies, and beetles are also important, but house sparrows take advantage of whatever foods are abundant to feed their young. Show More Sentences Whereas, exotic species like colorful parrots, sparrows and some local birds like mynah, quail, pigeon is allowed. Young house sparrows are fed mostly on insects until about 15 days after hatching. House sparrows sleep with the bill tucked underneath the scapular feathers. House sparrows were introduced in New Zealand in 1859, and from there reached many of the Pacific islands, including Hawaii. In much of Italy, a form apparently intermediate between the house and Spanish sparrows, is known as the Italian sparrow. Since joining the project I've never seen so many tree sparrows and grey partridges. Since joining the project, I've never seen so many tree sparrows and grey partridges. The Russian sparrows wheel pesteringly, no it is not time to come in, I said no it is not a time to come in. Pigeons, starlings, sparrows, cowbirds, grackles and other species find tree filled downtown and urban areas predator free. These vocalisations are not unique to the house sparrow, but are shared, with small variations, by all sparrows. And while the birds of prey were to be denied, our hedge sparrows continued to eye us suspiciously, as they do. He was netting hedge sparrows in the overgrown Clough behind the BlacK Bull at Lindley, Known as The Butts, since largely filled in. House sparrows give a nasal alarm call, the basic sound of which is transcribed as quer, and a shrill chree call in great distress. In the Rio Grande valley, Texas seaside sparrows were found nesting in black mangroves, saltmeadow cordgrass, and saltwort. Over the years I have spotted in my yard scores of sparrows, phoebes, warblers, towhees, plus of course ravens and those awful starlings. And there was the tree that had dropped most of its leaves but was loaded with chipping sparrows. They are swift fliers and skilled hunters who specialize in preying on small birds in the size range of sparrows to quail. Birdwatchers can explore the Grasslands Trail, where eastern meadowlarks, horned larks, grasshopper sparrows, and Sprague's pipits seek refuge. He recalled sightings last year of burrowing owls, lark sparrows and horned larks adjacent to the park in a small unplanted field. House sparrows are endangered unless we reduce the numbers of gulls in our city. Show More Sentences To successfully fledge young bluebirds, you mustn't hesitate to eradicate house sparrows. The species was suffering from a European invasion of house sparrows and European starlings. Visitors can see house sparrows, skylarks, hovering kestrels and soaring buzzards and enjoy a day out walking and relaxing. The most abundant species were grasshopper and Henslow's sparrows as well as eastern meadowlarks and red-winged blackbirds. Although thymic pathology has been reported in Java sparrows, we describe the long-term management of thymic lymphoma of a clinical case. Rufus-crowned sparrows and desert woodrats are thought to be present in the scrub area designated in the plan as open space. And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings. Birds usually described later as sparrows are referred to in many works of ancient literature and religious texts in Europe and western Asia. Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes. Around 668 bird species are found there, including crows, sparrows, mynas, hawks, falcons, and eagles. A primary cause of the decline seems to be an insufficient supply of insect food for nestling sparrows. House sparrows in constant dim light can also be entrained to a daily cycle based on the presence of food. The suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus have also been shown to be an important component of the circadian system of house sparrows. House sparrows express strong circadian rhythms of activity in the laboratory. Salmonella epidemics in the spring and winter can kill large numbers of sparrows. As newly hatched house sparrows do not have sufficient insulation, they are brooded for a few days, or longer in cold conditions. Young house sparrows remain in the nest for 11 to 23 days, normally 14 to 16 days. In 1851, it was discovered that there were a great many sparrows flying about in the Crystal Palace just before the Great Exhibition was to open. Also farmers were offered support and advice for entry into wildlife-friendly farming schemes to support existing populations of tree sparrows and other farmland birds. To make matters worse, Dutch scientists have linked declines in farmland birds, such as starlings and tree sparrows, with the same type of chemicals. Show More Sentences Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. Old Buggy and Winter Birds shows a buggy parked in front of a drive shed, while cardinals, juncos, and song sparrows feed on grain strewn over the ground. After fledging and leaving the care of their parents, young sparrows have a high mortality rate, which lessens as they grow older and more experienced. The formation of a pair and the bond between the two birds is tied to the holding of a nest site, though paired house sparrows can recognise each other away from the nest. We saw a bald eagle, an osprey, a loon and ducks of various types, and because we were sitting relatively quietly, had chipping sparrows land surprising close to us. One of the reasons for the introduction of house sparrows throughout the world was their association with the European homeland of many immigrants. Within minutes, it was visited by a Steller's jay and a flock of sparrows. These have included protection of nesting birds, trees and a stream at the site as well as the creation of special homes for bats, house martins and house sparrows. The Weekly News noted parakeets are very aggressive birds, which frequently muscle out pigeons and sparrows from local nests, and also carry parrot disease. Swallows and house martins are specialist insect hunters but seed eating birds, such as skylarks and house sparrows, also need insects to feed to their young. The numbers of house sparrows in the Netherlands have dropped in half since the 1980s, so the house sparrow is even considered an endangered species. Venous blood gas and lactate values of mourning doves, boat-tailed grackles, and house sparrows after capture by mist net, banding, and venipuncture. House sparrows have been kept as pets at many times in history, though they have no bright plumage or attractive songs, and raising them is difficult. Small seeds, such as millet, attract mostly house sparrows, dunnocks, finches, reed buntings and collared doves, while flaked maize is taken readily by blackbirds. Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows. The extent of the burglary is not yet known but four turquoisine parakeets, four Java sparrows, a yellow kakariki and a collection of finches and weavers are missing. Their 420-acre arable farm has become a haven for brown hares and birds, including skylarks, tree sparrows, buzzards, barn owls and flocks of goldfinches. Examples from Classical Literature The shrike had probably come to town to try his luck with English sparrows. The sparrow hawk has been wrongly named, for it eats a thousand times as many grasshoppers as it does sparrows. Wrens and sparrows are not too ignoble a quarry for this villainous gos-hawk! Our indigo bunting is as artful and secretive about its nesting-habits as any of the sparrows. Through the window, he could see still the sparrows that built in the ivied walls of the old church. Now, most of the sparrows seem to be ear-minded, at least as far as their recognition of their mates are concerned. I have no tame pets, but there are some chipping sparrows around our house. Here belated sparrows drank or splashed their dusty feathers, and the parrot watched them crookedly. The goldfinch is very anxious that the sparrows should not find out this barn. Some greenfinches, a whinchat or two, almost no pipits or larks, and very few sparrows. The tree sparrow, one of our most interesting sparrows, is another bird who does not fear the winter winds and storms. He made up his mind to climb right to the top, and get out on the slates, and try to catch sparrows. The song sparrows, by the way, treated me shabbily this season. It was something like the immobility of a bird of prey, who has just discovered a nest of sparrows, and is gazing at it. She noted that an influx of new home tracts attracts house sparrows, which displace native bluebirds and woodpeckers. Also spotted were herons, bulbuls, parakeets, doves, sparrows, swifts and partridges, among other species. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated. Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm. On the positive side, pigeons also eat pernicious seeds such as charlock, goosegrass, chickweed and dock seeds, and sparrows a multitude of insects. As a favor, she might consent to warm a flock of sparrows for you, but then she might take that very opportunity to turn herself loose and bury a city. Show More Sentences There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows. They're excellent for hunting pestiferous starlings and house sparrows, but they can't differentiate between them and songbirds, which are illegal to hunt. I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses, that I had ever seen. Find more words! 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