Here's my post about the House Sparrow. In the video you can see that it's very much like the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, and you can also learn how to tell them apart. One of the things I love about birding is that there are people who care about these tiny details; it matters to them which kind of sparrow they are seeing. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow, like the House Sparrow, was introduced into the United States. All the Eurasian Tree Sparrows in the US are descended from twelve individuals who were brought over in 1870 from Germany so that immigrants would have familiar species around them. They are found all over Europe and much of Asia, but only in a very small part of the United States. (The video is from the UK.)
Neat bird of brown and black and white,
House Sparrow's country cousin.
The ones that live in Iowa
Descended from a dozen.
©Ruth Bowen Hersey
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