The Sind sparrow is a passerine bird of the sparrow family, Passeridae. It is found around the Indus valley region in South Asia. The male has a chestnut stripe running down its head behind the eye, and the female has a darker head.
About Sind sparrow in brief
The Sind sparrow is a passerine bird of the sparrow family, Passeridae. It is found around the Indus valley region in South Asia. The male has a chestnut stripe running down its head behind the eye, and the female has a darker head than other sparrow species. Its main vocalisations are soft chirping calls that are extended into longer songs with other sounds interspersed by breeding males. The species was discovered around 1840, but went undetected for several decades afterwards. Since this species is fairly common and expanding its range, it is assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. It feeds mostly on seeds and less often on insects, foraging close to the ground. Both sexes are involved in building the nest and caring for the young, and usually raise two clutches of three to five young each breeding season. The breeding male has short and narrow black bib and a broad chestnut eye stripe that does not meet the mantle.
The female Dead Sea sparrow of the subspecies Passer moabiticus yattii is also similar, but has yellow tinges on the underparts and sometimes on parts of the head. The bill is black on the breeding male and pale brown on the non-breeding male and female. With a culmen length of 1. 1–1. 3 centimetres, the Sind sp arrow is slightly smaller-billed than the house sparrow. It has a grey crown and nape and a rufous lower back and rump. Wingspans range from 6. 2 to 7. 0 cm, tails from 4. 7 to 5. 7 cm, and tarsi measure 1. 6– 1. 9 centimetre. The Sind sp Arrow is 13 cm long, while the common South Asian subspecies of the house Sparrow,Passer domesticus indicus, is 15 cm long. The bird is social while feeding and gathers in small groups both while breeding and during winter dispersal. It was first formally described by Edward Blyth, from a specimen collected by Alexander Burnes at Bahawalpur in around 1840.
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