HOUSE SPARROW Passer domesticus
Familiar, bolshy urban sparrow, a gregarious and argumentative inhabitant of town gardens and plazas. Is there a birdwatcher on earth who isn´t familiar with this species? Nobody is really sure when the House Sparrow arrived in Paraguay, but it seems likely that our birds are descended from a group of birds introduced into Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th Century!
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FIGURE 1 - Adult male ventral, Asunción, Departamento Central (Frank Fragano undated).
FIGURE 2 - Adult male, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith October).
FIGURE 3 - Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith October).
FIGURE 4 - Adult male with bill deformity, Pilar, Departamento Ñeembucú (Paul Smith December 2007).
FIGURE 5 - Same individual head detail (Paul Smith December 2007).
FIGURE 6 - Adult female ventral, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2008).
FIGURE 7 - Adult female dorsal, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2008).
FIGURE 8 - Adult female, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 9 - Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 10 - Fledgling, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith January).
FIGURE 11 - Nestling estimated 11 days old, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith December 2006).
VIDEO - Adult female, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith November 2009).
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Passer domesticus
1 calls  recorded Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2007)
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