House Sparrow

Male and really light colored female

So numerous they are not protected in the US or Canada

Description - Male has black throat, white cheeks, and chestnut nape; gray crown and rump. Female and young are streaked dull brown above, dingy white below, with pale eyebrow.

Voice – Shrill, monotonous, noisy chirping.

Nesting – 5 or 6 white eggs, lightly speckled with brown, in a loose mass of grass, feathers, strips of paper, string, and similar debris placed in a man-made or natural cavity. 2 or 3 broods per season. Sometimes builds a globular nest in a tree.

Introduced and resident throughout temperate North American. Native to Eurasia and North Africa.

Within a short time after their introduction, these sparrows adapt to the local environment. Thus the sparrows of the rainy climate of Vancouver, British Columbia, are plump, dark birds, whereas those inhabiting Death Valley, California, are slim, pale, sand-colored birds. These changes took less that 60 years, and influence our ideas about the speed of evolutionary changes in birds