House Sparrow Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Lonchura atricapilla
Family : Estrildidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Villages
Description : The House Sparrow is a small streaked brown passerine (length 15 cm, weight 24 g, wing 7.5 cm, bill 1.4 cm, tarsus 2 cm, tail 5.4 cm approximately). The male looks different from the female. The breeding male has a grey crown, chestnut nape and eye stripe, rufous-chestnut back with black streaks, rufous wing with a white shoulder patch, grey rump, and a dark brown tail. Its earcoverts and cheeks are are white, the lores, throat and breast are black and the rest of its underparts are greyish-white. It has a black eye and the short triangular bill is dark brown. The female is brown above with buffish streaks on the mantle, has a plae supercilium, and is brownish-white below. It feeds on grass-seeds, cereals, fruits, flower buds, shoots, insects and kitchen scraps. It breeds in March-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Motacilla citreola
(Eastern Yellow Wagtail) -
Anthus hodgsoni
(Red‑throated Pipit) -
Lonchura malacca
(Chestnut Munia) -
Lonchura punctulata
(Tricoloured (Black‑headed) Munia) -
Passer montanus
(Forest Wagtail) -
Anthus richardi
(Paddyfield Pipit) -
Motacilla maderaspatensis
(White Wagtail) -
Anthus similis
(Western Yellow Wagtail) -
Motacilla tschutschensis
(White‑browed Wagtail) -
Ploceus philippinus
(Red Avadavat)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Mike Nelson(www.xeno-canto.org/Mike Nelson), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Mike Nelson(www.xeno-canto.org/Mike Nelson), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.