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Fledgling House Sparrow Getting Fed

By Corey June 4, 2008 9 comments

The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks ago I watched and photographed a young House Sparrow getting fed by its mother. I also watched, but failed to get pictures of, the same young bird being fed by two different male House Sparrows. These particular birds [...]

Fighting Over Crumbs

By Corey June 28, 2007 4 comments

A story in pictures…roll over the images for pop-up captions.

Once the female House Sparrow was driven off the males turned to fighting each other:

Too bad for the House Sparrows that a European Starling was waiting in the wings:

All of the pictures were taken in Kissena Park in Queens last weekend. And, no, I [...]