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speirs2

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Can anyone ID this bird please, i found 10 of them feeding on the grass today,thanks.
 

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Thanks for the quick reply, i'm not disapointed, this could be a very rare bird here.

...it's not.

They are an invasive, non-native species, found throughout the entirety of North America very commonly in urban and suburban areas, and much of, if not the entirety of the West Indies - Raffaele et al in "Birds of the West Indies" note "range is expanding" and his map from ~1998 already shows them in most of the West Indies. Plus, if you saw 10+ of them, that doesn't make much sense coordinating with your rarity evaluation.

On what island were your photos taken, by chance?
 
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...it's not.

They are an invasive, non-native species, found throughout the entirety of North America, and much of, if not the entirety of the West Indies - Raffaele et al in "Birds of the West Indies" note "range is expanding" and his map from ~1998 already shows them in most of the West Indies. Plus, if you saw 10+ of them, that doesn't make much sense coordinating with your rarity evaluation.

On what island were your photos taken, by chance?

Mustique Grenadines, no record of House Sparrows ever here.
 
Mustique Grenadines, no record of House Sparrows ever here.

I apologize for my presumptuousness, but according to all list I could find, they are expected and have been recorded throughout the Grenadines, to the point of commonality:

http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/checklist.jsp?lang=EN&region=vc&list=clements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines

For an invasive species which 10 years ago was becoming common in Guadaloupe (per Raffaele et al) and is noted to be expanding its range rapidly (having additionally done so throughout North America), I would expect it to have made it to the Grenadines by now.
 
Thanks for the info, St.Vincent has many birds not recorded here,mainly because it's a much bigger Island and more birdwatchers go there than the Grenadines.
So it looks like i'll be seeing Sparrows more often now! not sure if thats a good thing or not.
Thanks again.
 
The first record of House Sparrow on Dominica was in 2007, and I have still only seen them once on this island. I am curious about where the Raffaele guide has the Guadeloupe info from, the checklist from 2005 for the French Antilles does not mention this species ...

Niels
 
Thanks for the quick reply, i'm not disapointed, this could be a very rare bird here.

10 females? Didn't you see any males? They are hard to miss and much easier to ID.

House Sparrows control my back yard and House Finches control the front.:-O

Bob
 
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