{"id":367,"date":"2019-08-23T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T08:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenbirds.net\/?p=367"},"modified":"2019-09-06T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:38:47","slug":"house-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenbirds.net\/house-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"House Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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House Sparrows are cheery and gregarious visitors to gardens, never found far from humans. Their antics are fun to watch, although a small flock can be aggressive towards other birds and prevent them feeding, hence a ‘quarrel’ of sparrows!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly they are becoming rarer with drastic population declines in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific name: Passer domesticus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there anything you’d like to know about House Sparrows that isn’t covered here? Please ask us in the comments below<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a little piece of wood,
Mr. Spikky Sparrow stood;
Mrs. Sparrow sate close by,
A-making of an insect pie,
For her little children five,
In the nest and all alive,
Singing with a cheerful smile
To amuse them all the while,
“Twikky wikky wikky wee,
Wikky bikky twikky tee,
Spikky bikky bee!”<\/p>Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow, by Edward Lear<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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