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House sparrow
Passer domesticus
53.2251, -1.60857
Field Notes
Description:
The House Sparrow was among the first animals to be given a scientific name in the modern system of biological classification!! since it was described by Carl Linnaeus, in the 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It was described from a type specimen collected in Sweden, with the name Fringilla domestica. These birds unfortunately arent so commonly seen in the Uk anymore much like alot of other bird species.
Habitat:
This one was hopping around a bare flowering redcurrant bush in Derbyshire.
The House Sparrow originated in the Middle East and spread, along with agriculture, to most of Eurasia and parts of North Africa. Since the mid-nineteenth century, it has reached most of the world, due chiefly to deliberate introductions, but also through natural and shipborne dispersal.[69] Its introduced range encompasses most of North America, Central America, southern South America, southern Africa, part of West Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and islands throughout the world. It has greatly extended its range in northern Eurasia since the 1850s, and continues to do so, as was shown by the colonisations around 1990 of Iceland and Rishiri Island, Japan.The extent of its range makes it the most widely distributed wild bird on the planet.
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