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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A House Sparrow on a stook of oats |
| Image notes: |
Unlike the south, the numbers of Sparrows seem to have remained steady in Shetland. |
| Species in Image: |
House Sparrow |
| Date: |
1969 |
| Area: |
Yell |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01787 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
House Sparrow |
| Latin Name |
Passer domesticus |
| Latin Group Name |
Passeriformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Passeridae |
| Common Family Name |
Sparrows |
| Description |
Common breeding resident. The species is sedentary, rarely moving more than a few kilometres from their place of birth. One of the longest recorded movements in Britain being from Fair Isle and Foula in 1969. |
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