House sparrow

Poland House sparrow, Passer domesticus nestlings liver ... 

Pinowski, J., J. Romanowski, M. Barkowska, K. Sawicka-Kapusta, P. Kaminski, and A.G. Krusewicz. 1993. Lead and cadmium in relation to body weight and mortality of the house sparrow Passer domesticus and tree sparrow Passer montanus nestlings. Acta Omitholog. 28 63-68. 

Schafer, E.W., Jr., R.B. Brunton, N.F. Lockyer, and J.W. DeGrazio. 1973. Comparative toxicity of seventeen pesticides to the quelea, house sparrow, and red-winged blackbird. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 26 154-157. 

Birds that breed in cavities and reuse their nest sites often incorporate green parts of aromatic plants into their nests. Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, prefer certain species of plants to others. House sparrows. Passer domesticus, incorporate neem (margosa) tree, Azadirachta indica, leaves into their nests. Extracts from neem leaves repel arthropods and inhibit oviposition (Sengupta, 1981). The aromatic plants are thought to fulfill an important function by keeping down populations of microbes in the birds nests (Mason and Clark, 1986). 

House sparrow Passer Sorghum unripe seeds Tannins, astringents Tipton eta/., 1970... 

Birds do not necessarily distinguish palatable and unpalatable prey by odor. Free-ranging European birds such as chaffinch, house sparrow, robin, starling, blackbird, and song thrush recognized bread pieces treated with quinine and mustard powder only by their size, but not other visual cues or smell. This has a bearing on model-mimic relationships. Batesian mimics are often smaller than their unpalatable models (Marples, 1993). 

Sengupta, S. (1981). Adaptive significance of the use of margosa leaves in nests of the house sparrow Passer domesticus). Emu 81,114. 

Fig. 1. Taxon specificity in crystallin expression, as revealed by SDS-PAGE analysis of lens extracts from mammals (A) and birds (B). Major enzyme crystallins are indicated. In (B) the variability in / 1 (fl) mobility among birds is apparent. [For full species names, see G. Wistow, E. Roquemore, and H. S. Kim, Curr. Eye Res. 10, 313 (1991), and G. Wistow and H. Kim, J. Mol. Evol. 32,262 (1991), from which this figure is adapted.] (A) M, Marker Wb, wallaby Es, elephant shrew Rb, rabbit Mo, mouse Cv, rock cavy. (B) M, Marker Am, merganser Bd, black duck Sf, chimney swift Hb, hummingbird St, starling Sw, bam swallow Rh, rhea Sp, house sparrow Rc, raccoon (a mammal for comparison).

In addition, a small population of skylarks Alauda arvensis), a species native to Eurasia and Africa, has been introduced to southern Vancouver Island. This bird was introduced by European immigrants, who longed for the beautiful, warbling, song-flights of skylarks, so familiar in their memories of the European countryside. Unlike other birds introduced for this sort of reason, such as the starling and house sparrow, the skylark did not become an invasive pest. 

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. 

Hole DG, Whittingham MJ, Bradbury RB, Anderson GQA, Lee PLM, Wilson JD, Krebs JR. 2002. Widespread local house-sparrow extinctions — agricultural intensification is blamed for the plummeting populations of these birds. Nature 418 931-932. 

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. 2. Hide not thy face from me in the day when 1 am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread. 5. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am like an owl of the desert. 7. 1 watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. 9. For... 

It enables the hexose moiety from phosphorylated glucose to be released into the bloodstream. It is present in the endoplasmic reticulum of liver and kidney, but activity in brain and skeletal musde is generally low. Glucosyl units, after their removal from liver glycogen by phosphorylase, can ako be released into the bloodstream. Glycogen, present in skeletal muscle, is used almost exclusively within muscle itself. Low glucose 6-phosphatase activities have been detected in the pectoral muscles of domestic fowl pigeon and house sparrow (Lackner et al, 1984). This may be an indication that small... 

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