House Sparrows Won’t Be Evicted

By Corey • May 23, 2010 • 1 comment

The Department of Transportation will not be removing the House Sparrow nest from a crosswalk signal in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was determined that the sparrows were not negatively effecting the function of the signal.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

One Response to “House Sparrows Won’t Be Evicted”

Matt D May 23rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I’m glad this is the outcome; this was a big “are you kidding me?” when the DOT initially stated they’d remove them (they had the caveat “if they’re interfering with the signal,” or whatever, but I questioned whether they’d consider that appropriately). The pic in the Post was great…

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