EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW

 

(*  506)                EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW                  Paser montanus

CAMBODIA.            22

Commonly associated with human habitat, including ports, towns, villages, factories, rural settlements to 1,400 m. 14 cm. Throughout Asia.

HOUSE SPARROW

 (* 44)               HOUSE SPARROW       Passer domesticus

CAMBODIA               21

14-16 cms. Abundant and widespread resident. Generally in cities, towns, rural areas, also cultivation areas in winter.

EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(*   506)                EURASIAN TREE-SPARROW                  Paser montanus

MALAYSIA              34

Commonly associated with human habitat, including ports, towns, villages, factories, rural settlements to 1,400 m. 14 cm. Throughout Asia.

HOUSE SPARROW

Subspecies indicus, March 2017

(*  44)                HOUSE SPARROW            Passer domesticus

SRI LANKA              115

Found around habitation and cultivation. 15 cm. Locally common to rare breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka.

HOUSE SPARROW

Female, photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal March 2017

44    HOUSE SPARROW       Passer domesticus

NEPAL        (18)

14-16 cms. Abundant and widespread resident. Generally in cities, towns, rural areas, also cultivation areas in winter.

JAVA SPARROW

Photographed on Christmas Island, December 2016

956                JAVA SPARROW                 Lonchura oryzivora

AUSTRALIA (Christmas Island)                686

Also known as Java Finch, Java Rice Sparrow, Java Rice Bird. Found in grassland and cultivation, especially rice fields. 15-17 cm. Resident in Java, Bali and Bawean; popular cage and aviary bird introduced into many countries; introduced into Christmas Island.

EURASIAN TREE SPARROW

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see 506)              EURASIAN TREE SPARROW              Passer montanus

SINGAPORE         (5)

Found in urban areas, such as villages, towns and rural developments; not found in wild habitat. 15cm. Range: Eurasia; introduced into other regions, such as Australia and USA.

EURASIAN TREE SPARROW

Photographed in Denpasar, Bali October 2016

(see 506)              EURASIAN TREE SPARROW              Passer montanus

INDONESIA (Bali)         (1)

Found in urban areas, such as villages, towns and rural developments; not found in wild habitat. 15cm. Range: Eurasia; introduced into other regions, such as Australia and USA.

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.

SOUTHERN GREY-HEADED SPARROW

451          SOUTHERN GREY-HEADED SPARROW        Passer diffusus

South Africa          (115)

Found in savanna and woodlands. Range Angola and Zambia, spreading south into South Africa, now found over most of Southern Africa, where it is also kept as a cage bird. 15 cm.

HOUSE SPARROW

44    HOUSE SPARROW       Passer domesticus

Australia    (44)

14-16 cms. Found all over the eastern half of Australia. Urban areas, parks, homesteads, grain growing areas, mallee and mulga. Introduced into Australia in 1860s. Native to nw Africa, Eurasia.

Photographed in Nepal.