{"id":426,"date":"2006-02-25T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/02\/25\/house-sparrow-building-a-nest\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T02:05:50","slug":"house-sparrow-building-a-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/25\/house-sparrow-building-a-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"House Sparrow Building a Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Passer_domesticus.html\">House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)<\/a> begin busily building nests in roof cavities, old woodpecker holes, and in birdhouses here in Tucson, Arizona. While I was wandering around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonbotanical.org\/\">Tucson Botanical Gardens<\/a> in February of 2006, I noticed this industrious male House Sparrow collecting a mouthful of feathers to use for lining his nest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/Passer-domesticus-1.jpg\" alt=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) collecting feathers for a nest\" title=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) collecting feathers for a nest\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He then flew off to an old woodpecker hole in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/339\/carnegiea-gigantea-saguaro\/\">Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)<\/a> cactus where he and a female House Sparrow were constructing a nest. This Saguaro had sprouted a tiny new arm under their nest hole, making a nice perch for the House Sparrows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/Passer-domesticus-perched.jpg\" alt=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) perched on a Saguaro\" title=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) perched on a Saguaro\" width=\"400\" height=\"486\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In urban areas, like where the Tucson Botanical Gardens are located, House Sparrows are more common than most native birds and many old holes in Saguaros will be occupied by non-native cavity dwellers like <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/02\/european-starling\/\">European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)<\/a> and of course House Sparrows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/Passer-domesticus-Saguaro.jpg\" alt=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in a Saguaro\" title=\"Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in a Saguaro\" width=\"400\" height=\"493\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) begin busily building nests in roof cavities, old woodpecker holes, and in birdhouses here in Tucson, Arizona. While I was wandering around the Tucson Botanical Gardens in February of 2006, I noticed this industrious male House Sparrow collecting a mouthful of feathers to use for lining his nest. He&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/25\/house-sparrow-building-a-nest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}