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the tiny brown nobody that conquered every continent before you finished breakfast.
means A small, plump, brownish songbird of the family Passeridae, common in towns and gardens worldwide and famous for its boldness around people.
from From Old English 'spearwa,' the name this little bird has carried for over a thousand years. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root (cousin to Old Norse 'spörr' and Gothic 'sparwa'), and scholars suspect a deeper Indo-European ancestor possibly tied to words for 'flutter' or simply 'small bird' — fitting, since the sparrow has always been the default tiny bird against which others are measured.
- global tenant
- House sparrows live on every continent but Antarctica
- piggyback travel
- They spread worldwide by following human settlements
- chairman mao
- China's sparrow purge backfired into a locust famine
- city dialects
- Urban sparrows sing louder to beat traffic noise
- loyal flocks
- Many pairs bond and nest together for life
house sparrow — passer domesticus, found on every continent except antarctica, most widespread wild bird species
java sparrow — lonchura oryzivora, critically endangered endemic to indonesia with fewer than 10,000 in wild
white-crowned sparrow — zonotrichia leucophrys, migrates 3,000+ miles annually between arctic alaska and california