Monday, February 16, 2015

EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW

Photographed in and around Serandip Sanctuary, Victoria, February 2015.
506           EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW          Passer montanus
  
Australia            (347)

Found in suburbs, rural towns, farm buildings/homesteads. 13-15 cm. Native to Eurasia, s. to Phiippines, e. Indonesia. Introduced to Australia from 1860s; established in Melbourne and towns from c. Dimboola (w. Vic) and Hay (NSW) north to Narromine-Gilgandra; east to Cowra-ACT-Albury.