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What is a sparrow?

What is a sparrow? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
  2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
  3. A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
  4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
Probably the most distinctive birdsong that I have ever heard belongs to the white-throated sparrow.
There you can find nesting the crissal thrasher and the black-chinned sparrow.
In the two first experiments, the experimental sparrow was placed in an aviary next to a cage containing either a rabbit or a cat.
He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
Songbirds also live here, including the snow bunting, raven, American tree sparrow, and hoary redpoll.

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