Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 07:44:15 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Passer domesticus In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit But the House Sparrow is in serious trouble in the U.K. with a rapidly declining population, and there are a number of studies trying to find out why. Apparently it is a reproductive or nest failure and may be related to lack of food during critical stages in rearing the chicks. Since this could have implications for rarer species. British ornithologists are watching this trend carefully. Passer domesticus is, of course, native to Great Britain. Gail Mackiernan Silver Spring, MD on 02/22/2004 5:25 AM, Bill Ellis at billellis@ELLISLIST.COM wrote: > Passer domesticus has stolen habitat from friendlier birds the world > over. Even its cousin, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, has been pushed out of > much St. Louis into the surrounding countryside by the aggressive > tendencies of P. domesticus. > > How about calling it Black-reputationed Old World Sparrow, or Eurasian > Invasive Sparrow, or Pirate Passerid, or Blackbeard? > > Bill Ellis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Ringler > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 10:11 PM > > ... the bird to which you are referring is in the family Passeridae > which the checklist committee has dubbed Old World Sparrows, ... > Since the name Black-throated Sparrow is already preoccupied > perhaps > you need to give it some other catchy title. > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================