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...jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo &copy; by {{user|Nigelblake|Nigel Blake}}<br />Old Warden, [[Bedfordshire]], May 2005]] ...eaf trees (ancient oaks etc. providing large holes); frequently found near man in gardens and towns. Aggressive when young leave nest, can attack intruder

...is placed in a natural tree hole, an old woodpecker hole or a cavity in a man-made structure (bridge support, cement column, etc). Lays 3 to 4 eggs.<br /

...d as a member of the thrush family, but is now considered to belong to the Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae). European Robins and similar small Europea Very confiding and will approach close to man, certainly in the [[British Isles]]; Continental birds appear to be more wa

The nest is an oval ball, generally of grass, but old-man's-beard (lichen of the genus ''Usnea'') and wild asparagus stems are also u

...pg|thumb|550px|right|Photo &copy; by {{user|tomsphotos|tomsphotos}}<br />[[Old Moor]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]. 21 June 2016]] ...feral birds and in [[Britain]] especially, live in close association with man. Bred ferally in [[Iceland]] in the 1960s but extinct since 1977.

...t|Photo &copy; by {{user|peteee23|peteee23}}<br />Point of Ayre, [[Isle of Man]]]] Mainly Old World, marginal in North America: breeding from northeast [[Canada]] and [[

...nhabited since ancient times with evidendence of occupation by Neanderthal man. There are also numerous examples of prehistoric rock art in the park, mos ...t areas to the north-east and south-west of the new A381 motorway with the old A381 providing a pleasant meandering route between the two.

Worldwide. Deliberately introduced by man on several continents, this bird is an unwelcome addition to the local ecol ...nother variant of this, which has a disyllabic chirr-up, giving rise to an old English name for the house sparrow, "Phyllip sparrow" where the "phyll-ip"