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sparrow

Any of a family (Passeridae) of small Old World birds of the order Passeriformes with short, thick bills, but applied particularly to the different members of the genus Passer in the family Ploceidae, order Passeriformes.

Many members of the New World family Emberizidae, which includes warblers, orioles, and buntings, are also called sparrows; for example, the North American song sparrow Melospize melodia.



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Rarely, however, is a bond as strong as that between Chris Chester and his friend B, a house sparrow he rescued when B fell out of his nest as a baby.
The epitome of urban birds, the house sparrow, is all but extinct in central London.
To get a better idea of what the birds are seeing, Hunt and her colleagues measured UV reflection from chick gapes and nests for barn swallows, blackbirds, house sparrows, and five other European species.
 
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