House Sparrow - Data Source - Dickinson's Birds

H. L. Clark, Birds of Amherst & Hampshire County (1887)

Common name English Sparrow
Scientific name (Clark) Passer domestica Linn .
Occurrence Abundant resident
Presence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Clark's fieldnotes, first and second editions (synthesized) ENGLISH SPARROW . Ashy - gray ; middle of back , streaked with black and bay ; crown , bordered on each side with chestnut ; beneath , ashy - white ; chin and throat , black . Female is without the chestnut on crown , or black on throat . Length , 6 inches . Abundant resident , being absent only in the severest winter weather . Raises 3 – 4 broods . Eggs 4 - 7 , grayish - white , spotted with a very dark shade of gray . Nest of cotton , feathers , string , grass , etc . , in holes in trees , bird - houses , etc . Eggs laid from A pril to August . Feeds on grain , seeds , buds , leaves , flowers of fruit trees , etc . VERY INJURIOUS . Notes , loud and quarrelsome ; a most disagreeable chatter .

A. C. Bagg & S. A. Eliot, Jr., Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts (1937)

Common name House or English Sparrow
Scientific name Passer domesticus
Occurrence Common permanent resident about buildings, almost never seen away from them

Mass Audubon, Birds of Massachusetts (2020)

Common name House Sparrow
Scientific name Passer domesticus
Occurrence Resident. This Old World native was introduced and reintroduced at many locations in North America starting in the 1850s and by about 1910 had spread throughout nearly the entire continent.

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