Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
House Sparrows and any other introduced bird that people have moved to another country where they don't belong. House Sparrows kill Swallows, Bluebirds and any other cavity-nesting bird. They go into their house and kill the whole family and even use the bodies for nesting material. I have seen them do it and I have seen them clamp onto a Purple's Martin's belly and drag it to the ground and kill it. Bluebirds used to be a common backyard bird in North America until the House Sparrows arrived. I don't have a problem with birds killing other birds if it is a natural behaviour. I don't consider the House Sparrows to be natural because people brought them here. They are not a native species. I am going to England in August and I am looking forward to House Sparrows that I will enjoy seeing in their natural habitat.
+1 :t:
For the same reasons, mine would be the:
Indian Mynah
Starling
Sparrow
Maybe they are wonderful in their native countries, but out here they are just pests. Sky rats. Infested with lice. Gang Killers, Home Invaders, and Displacers of little (and some not so little!) native birds. At least various raptors knock the odd ones off. :cat:
As for our Australian Magpie - lovely ! o (unless you're a postie on his bike trying to deliver the mail ! :eek!:
Even better is a young Pied Butcher bird softly imitating the warbling of a Magpie on a cool early Spring morning :king: :t:
Oh, almost forgot - not overly fond of the 'looks' of the famous "Bin Chicken" either ! :-O
Chosun :gh: