I called it British because it is found all over the British Isles, even on some of the more isolated islands. The _really_ isolated places have their own subspecies'.
Once one of the top three common birds in towns and suburbia, the population there has crashed for unknown reasons by about 90% in the last 40 years. > On 17/01/2023 00:04 ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I learned the name -English- Sparrow as a child .. more recent field > guide from National Geo lists the name as a varient for house... > but what I was kidding about answering Mike's post is the way people > these days are more apt to say British or Britain. > > ann old school > > On 1/16/2023 6:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> > > > > Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used > > for the same bird by some folks. > > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Comcast wrote: > >> > >>> I call them House Spartows as does Audubon. I’ve shot hundreds in my > >> backyard. > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
