PASSERIDAE

HOUSE SPARROW

Male

Female

Location : Jeti Kuala Perlis 
Date :  12 December 2021

15 cm Male breeding indicus: Grey crown, whitish head-sides, big black bib. Chestnut from eye to nape-side, streaked mantle, brownish-grey rump/uppertail-coverts.Male non-breeding: Browner crown, greyer mantle, pale-tipped bib and crown-/napesides, pale bill. Female: Nondescript; paler supercilium/ underparts, dark streaks above, pale horn bill. Juvenile: Paler/plainer above than female, often bolder supercilium, paler bill. VOICE Sings with monotonous chirrup cheep chirp.. etc. Calls include chirrup, chissick, shrill chree, and rolling chur’r’r’it’it’it. HABITAT Towns/villages, cultivation, scrub, mainly in dry areas. RANGE Lc/co RMyanmar, W,NW,NE,C Thailand, Cambodia, N,S Laos, west Cochinchina. Un FER Singapore