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The House Sparrow - My 100th Post (92)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1060 W: 57 N: 2419]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (9271) | It's been a few months since I've joined TN (thanks to my friend Vishal Sabharwal, who not only got me on board, but also spent a lot of time teaching me some basics, even after I joined).
And it's been an awesome journey; everyone here taught me something, and everyone supported me whole heartedly. If I went into names, it would go on forever, so I avoid it, purposefully.Thank you, my friends, for giving me another cause to live for, another cause to motivate me to make this earth a better place to live in, for us, and for our generations to come...
The House Sparrow
Taxonomy
Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: PASSERIDAE
Scientific Name: Passer domesticus
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s: HOUSE SPARROW (Eng)
Assessment Information
Red List Category & Criteria: LC ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 130,000,000–270,000,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History: 1988 - Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994 - Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
2000 - Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)
Geographic Range
Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 130,000,000-270,000,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Countries:
Native:
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Argentina; Armenia; Aruba; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Bermuda; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; China; Colombia; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Costa Rica; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Eritrea; Estonia; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Latvia; Lebanon; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malawi; Mexico; Moldova, Republic of; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nepal; Netherlands; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Somalia; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Thailand; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Turks and Caicos Islands; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Uzbekistan; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen
Introduced:
Australia; British Indian Ocean Territory; Comoros; Jamaica; Lesotho; Maldives; Mauritius; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Réunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Seychelles; Swaziland; United States; Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela
Vagrant:
Japan; Trinidad and Tobago; Viet Nam
Habitat and Ecology
System: Terrestrial |
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