Sparrows
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Passeridae
Sparrows are small passerine birds. In general, sparrows tend to be small, plump, brown or grey birds with short tails and short powerful beaks. Sparrows are seed-eaters, and they also consume small insects. There are 35 species worldwide and 8 species which occur in Egypt.
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis
- Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus
- Desert Sparrow Passer simplex
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Sudan Golden-Sparrow Passer luteus
- Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla
- White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Egypt
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Pigeons settling on the bears’ bread, buzzards
Tearing the meat the flies have clouded. . . .”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
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the sparrows stuck on him
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“And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)