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@Tempus_Fugit

"my toes are cold!"

@JubilantJaguar

looks like they all have food, maybe someone is feeding them...

i never see the New Orleans monk parakeets all that close... SIGH

@yyprum @DigitalAudio

Eurasian Tree Sparrow is the full common English name of this species

there are 2 large groups of sparrows, Old World & New World, your Eurasian Tree Sparrow is an Old World Sparrow while American Tree Sparrow is a New World Sparrow that is not too closely related

so... yes ... there are MANY kinds of sparrows + to add more confusion, non birders sometimes call any small brownish bird a sparrow

@StarvingMartist

She doesn't look like she's starving, House Sparrows have been living in warehouses & even the Detroit airport for years

If there's a food & water source, you may have Sparrows for good

i would not expect her to take Pop Tarts from the hand ??? but her calmness to your approach suggests to me that somebody's been feeding her (maybe on the sly)-- probably they drop the crumbs for her to pick up instead of trying to hand feed her tho

(males have gray crown & black bib)

@UndergroundGoblin

my ❤️ !!!!!!

@bonjour

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@GlassHalfHopeful @Peanutbuttergrits

not sure where they saw it, but if i saw it around here, i'd call it as Common Grackle

they do have that amount of brown but it's a play of light type of thing where most of the time they just look like an all-over black bird until the light is striking their plumage at the right angle