The appearance characteristics and main food of sparrows, as well as the living environment and livi

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1. The body characteristics of sparrows: sparrows are smaller, and the body length of sparrows is generally about 14 cm.

2. The color characteristics of sparrows: the beak of sparrows is black; tarsal plantar light brown; The head and neck are darker chestnut, and the back is lighter chestnut with black stripes. One of the sparrow's most recognizable features is a large black spot on the left and right of the cheeks, with two white bands on the shoulder feathers.

The tail is small forked and light brown. The throat of the young bird is gray, but it becomes darker and darker as the bird ages, until it becomes black. Young birds are not easily recognizable from males and females, while adults can be distinguished by their shoulder feathers, which are maroon red in this case and olive-brown in females.

3. Characteristics of sparrows' living habits: sparrows are married in groups, except for individual or paired activities during breeding, they are mostly in small groups in other seasons. It is an omnivorous bird that feeds mainly on plant foods and insects.

Sparrows also have the following characteristics:

Strong flight ability, can stay for a short time, can make sharp turns, and fly up and down, left and right freely; Particularly vigilant; Monogamy.

Strong reproductive ability, in the season when there are insects, one litter is bred a month, and a nest is at least 4 small sparrows. Northeast.

A litter in 6-7-8 months; The baby sparrows do not build nests in the first year, but build nests to breed in the second year.

Lifespan of a sparrow:

The lifespan of sparrows is relatively short, and the survival rate is not high, and only one of the eight flown chicks can live long enough to pass on to their generations. The oldest sparrow on record lived only eleven years. Sparrows must have nests to survive the winter, and without shelter and food, they can only live for fifteen hours in freezing temperatures.

The characteristics of sparrows are:

1. Lively personality:

Sparrows have a lively personality, bold and easy to approach people, but they are highly vigilant, very curious, and a bit domineering. It sometimes takes over the nest of house swallows! In the wild, tree cavities are also their favorite nesting spots, especially in old tree clusters with many tree cavities.

2. Like to live in groups:

Sparrows like to live in groups, especially in autumn, when they form large flocks of hundreds or thousands of individuals, known as finches.

3. Alertness by nature:

Sparrows are very smart and alert and have a good memory! Unlike many other small finches, a sparrow will show a closeness to the person who rescued it if it is rescued by a person, and it will last for a long time.

4. Very united:

Unity is strength, don't look at the sparrows are small, but if there are invaders, they will work together to drive the invaders away. Especially when it comes to brooding, they tend to behave very bravely.

5. Omnivorous birds:

Sparrows are omnivorous birds. Generally, the seeds of grasses are used as food, but in order to enhance nutrition during brooding and propagation, insects that harm grasses will be the main food.

Sparrow's habitat:

The habitat is 300-2500 meters above sea level. Regardless of mountains, plains, hills, grasslands, swamps and farmland, all kinds of forests and shrubs in the low hills and plains at the foot of the mountains, they are mostly active in sparse forests, shrubs and grasses at the edge of the forest, and do not like dense large forests.

They tend to move and forage in places where there are human settlements, towns and villages, river valleys, orchards, rocky grassy slopes, in front of houses and behind houses, and on roadside trees.