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Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Passer montanus

Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Joe Pell — Tree Sparrow 2 (Wikimedia Commons) · CC-BY-2.0

Skovspurven er en spurv i ordenen af spurvefugle. Oprindeligt var den udbredt i Europa og Asien, men er siden indført til Nordamerika, Australien og New Zealand.

Field marks

Sparrow with a chocolate-brown , a clean white cheek with a bold black spot and a white neck-collar; black throat and lores, streaked brown back and a white . Both sexes alike. Smaller and slimmer than House Sparrow.

Can be confused with

  • House Sparrow — Male House Sparrow has a grey crown and white cheeks with no spot, and the sexes look different; Tree Sparrow has a brown crown, a black cheek-spot and identical sexes.

Voice

Chirping like House Sparrow but drier and higher-pitched; a characteristic hard "tek tek" in flight.

Facts

Wingspan

21 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

sparrows

Passeridae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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