HOUSE SPARROW FACTS

SIZE: 14-18CM

SCINTIFIC NAME: PASSER DOMESTICUS

HABITATS: HUMAN HABITATIONS AND VILLAGE OUTSKIRTS

VOICE: TRI TRI TRI(chirping)

FOODS: GRAINS, KITCHEN WASTES, BUGS, FRUITS ETC.

SPEED: 46km/h aprx

MASS: 24-40 GRMS.

STEPS TO SAVE SPARROWS

Building bird house: Building bird house around homes is one of the options to prevent sparrows from losing nests.

Putting bird feeders:  Hanging or placing bird feeders outside home is another option, mainly in cities it will help sparrow get feed.

Planting hedgerows: Planting bushes near walls around houses or in your garden may help them build nests also prevent them from being an easy prey.

Tree committee: To prevent road side trees from getting cut down without any reason government should form a tree committee with environmental activists and whenever there is a need of widening the road etc they should discuss with the committee members and if it is necessary then only the tree should be removed from there.

Removing bird traps: There are people who use bird traps and poisons etc’s considering birds as pests just to prevent them from entering gardens so action should be took against them and should prevent them from doing this.Using scare crow may scare the birds but will not kill them.

Use of non chemical fertilizers: Using traditional fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers is one of the options to prevent foods from getting poisonous, it also healthier for humans and animals, the fertilizers like worm fertilizers, manures etc.

I saw on social media that china killed sparrows in a large number by conducting THE GREAT SPARROW CAMPAIGN to prevent sparrows from eating grains from paddy fields and to make more profit out of it but after that they realized that sparrows eat the bugs and bees as well which cause damage to the plants and then they brought some sparrows from outer countries. If it is true then we should not do anything like this ever.

REASONS WHY SPARROWS ARE DISAPPEARING

       REASONS WHY SPARROWS ARE DISAPPEARING

Do you know that sparrows are decreasing in numbers?

Yes you heard it right the cute little bird we all love are decreasing in numbers due to some reasons which I will be discussing below and also I will put some tips as well to save this birds from going extinct and if we follow some of them it will save the birds.

So let’s see the reasons why these birds are decreasing.


Felling of trees:  Now a day’s in most of the places, Trees are getting cut down in the names of widening the roads etc which in result causing this birds along with other birds to lose their habitats, most of the trees which are getting cut down are without any reason.
                            

Lack of nesting areas : Sparrows makes nests in the side of houses and buildings as well, but nowadays the  glass and steels are used to make marvelous buildings where it is not possible for this birds to build nests because such buildings does not have crevices or nooks.
                 

                                                                    

Lack of native plants: 

Today the native plants have been getting replaced by non native plants and it is not good because young sparrows need these plants to become adult.

                                                   

Cement walls: Use of cement walls around the house may be protective from harmful creatures but it replaces the hedgerows, as I stated earlier sparrows make nests and rests in bushes the lack of these hedges make these birds a easy prey.

Use of concrete: Sparrows take dust baths which allow for healthy amount of oil in their plumage but the widespread use of concrete does not allows this to happen.

Lack of grains: Lacks of the availability of grains are one of the reasons why sparrows lose food because of the packing done in grocery stores with less loss may be good for us but it replaced any option of sparrows to feed on, the packing are done in factory itself so these kinds of packing have reduced the availability of food grains for sparrows (mostly in cities). 

Chemical fertilizers: Increased use of chemical fertilizers harms the sparrows and kills them; it also weakens and deforms the offspring’s by polluting the bloodlines.

Radiations: It is no doubt that the radiations from mobile towers etc are harmful for humans and it is very harmful for sparrows and other birds a well, we can see that the sparrows which was in large numbers before the mobile towers in our towns and cities have been got decreased after it.

  

Also using bird traps and killing them is also a reason in decreasing the number of sparrows. 

HOUSE SPARROW THE DISAPPEARING BIRD

INTRODUCTION:

House sparrows are very familiar neighboring birds which we 

can see hanging and singing around our houses, It’s a very 

wary and alert birds, Males are more attractive than females 

having grey crown black around eyes neck and chin and breast 

and brownish color, where as females are less attractive having 

ashy grey with brown above and ashy white below.

They gather from a small group to large groups, their nesting and feedings are around habitations also sometimes take rest on thick bushes.

                                             

Food they eat are grains, fruits, insects, flower nectars and kitchen scraps etc. for its babies they feed insects and worms etc.

Their voice is chirping notes while at the time of breeding males make  tri.tri.tri sound. They lay around 3 to 5 eggs coloured in pale greyish white stippled and blotched brown.

The main reason I put my title as “HOUSE SPARROW THE DISAPPEARING BIRD” is to bring it in to your notice that these small creatures are decreasing in numbers due to the things done by us Humans.

                                                     

To know what harm does we causing to the birds and to the Eco system keep reading.