4896 x 3264 px | 41,5 x 27,6 cm | 16,3 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1. März 2012
Ort:
Norfolk England UK
Weitere Informationen:
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness, have managed to colonize most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. Whilst the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Found from the center of cities to the farmland of the countryside, it feeds and breeds near to people. Vanishing from the center of many cities, but not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.