House Sparrows: You Know Them, Should You Hate Them?
<p>Even the <a href="https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/house-sparrow" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Audubon Society</a> online field guide describes their chirps as “shrill, monotonous, noisy” …rather value-loaded descriptors, huh? Even for the purportedly unbiased world of science, there is always a socio-cultural context, and in the North American birding world, House Sparrows have been made into the small but mighty villain.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t consider yourself a “birder” and couldn’t identify the species by name, I might even be willing to bet money that you’ve seen one — perhaps at a bird feeder, in a city park, or among dropped food scraps at an outdoor café. The House Sparrow (<em>Passer domesticus</em>) is one of the most <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Sparrow/overview" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">widespread birds</a> across North America and the world. However, this cosmopolitan originally hails from Eurasia and northern Africa, where it is known as the English Sparrow.</p>
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