House Sparrows: You Know Them, Should You Hate Them?

<p>Even the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/house-sparrow" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Audubon Society</a>&nbsp;online field guide describes their chirps as &ldquo;shrill, monotonous, noisy&rdquo; &hellip;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&rsquo;t consider yourself a &ldquo;birder&rdquo; and couldn&rsquo;t identify the species by name, I might even be willing to bet money that you&rsquo;ve seen one &mdash; perhaps at a bird feeder, in a city park, or among dropped food scraps at an outdoor caf&eacute;. The House Sparrow (<em>Passer domesticus</em>) is one of the most&nbsp;<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Sparrow/overview" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">widespread birds</a>&nbsp;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> <p><a href="https://medium.com/natural-world/house-sparrows-you-know-them-should-you-hate-them-f462d705be8f"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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