### animal | vertebrate | bird | songbird:

Small songbird
* Many small songbirds travel thousands of miles.
* Most small songbirds have necks.
* Some small songbirds eat seeds.
* are the most frequent victims of illegal trapping on the Mediterranean island.

### animal | vertebrate | bird:

Sparrow
* Most sparrows eat grain
  - grasshoppers
  - insects
  - seeds or small insects
  - establish territory
  - feed on seeds
  - has-part wings
* Most sparrows have bills
* Most sparrows live for several years
  - make nests
  - require diets
  - sit on fences
  - take flight
* Some sparrows are small but they can be a little bigger than other sparrows.
* Some sparrows eat grass
  - rice
  - feed on caterpillars
  - live in Canada
  - occur in grassland.
  * A 'Sparrow' member of the genus 'Passer'. They are small passerine birds which belong to the family 'Passeridae'. They are also known as old-world Sparrows. Sparrows often make their nests near houses or buildings. This means they are one of the easiest birds to see in the wild
* actually prefer their seed sprinkled onto the ground.
* are birds.
* are extremely social birds that mainly nest in colonies
  - vocal birds that chirp all the time
  - ground foragers
  - loosely monogamous
  - mainly brown
  - passerines
  - present in good numbers in late fall
  - public enemy number one in the bird world
  - slimmer with longer tails and different markings
* are small birds who forage for food on the ground
  - small, easily frightened, and fly away quickly
  - thought to be the carriers of the spirits enroute to the afterlife
  - usually easy on food and consume almost anything that they can find
  - valuable to farmers in destroying weed seeds
  - very numerous in Jerusalem
* become much more aggressive as their nesting cycle progresses.
* bicker overhead.
* build nests in small excavated depressions on the ground.
* can be beneficial to humans as well, especially by eating insect pests
  - use their nest building behavior to successfully evict or prevent martins from nesting
* come in all different colors and sizes.
* do as sparrows do.
* dominate the winters, and starlings.
* don t drop candy wrappers.
* easily repel martins that are investigating new colony sites.
  - millet, cracked corn, and sunflower seeds
  - small bugs because of their small beaks
* find warm nesting sites in old buildings.
* fly overhead as people walk and meet along a little street on a snowy day.
* have a very important place in the lives of the people
  - dialects
  - feathers
  - feet that can easily grasp and hold on to a perch
  - large feet that are well-adapted for scratching for seeds, their chief food
* huddle in uncommon silence.
* includes air sacs
  - bird's feet
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - lips
  - mouths
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - talons
  - vacuoles
  - wishbones
* know when to build nests and raise their young.
* learn adult song and more from memory.
  - their nest in the cliffs
* pick the wave of the setting sun.
* prefer fields.
* prefer to nest at a higher level
  - reside close to permanent human dwellings where they can find bird feeders
  - moderate conditions for proper breeding
* spend a lot more time around their nest sites during the day.
* typically have more distinctive face patterns.
+ Sparrow, Description
  * Sparrows are small birds. They are usually brown and gray. They have short tails and small, strong beaks. Most sparrows eat seeds or small insects.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | sparrow:

Grasshopper sparrow
* Most grasshopper sparrows establish territory.
* Some grasshopper sparrows occur in grassland.