Following is a link to a short, slow motion video of two female house sparrows who were locked in a vicious fight in our yard for more than 5 minutes. Most of the time they were behind the wall stones of our garden and out of view. They fought all the way up the hill in our yard and out of sight into our neighbors yard. This is the first time we've seen such behavior and we are at a loss to understand what would have caused it. We've heard of males injuring each other in dominance fights, but not females. Would anyone know if this common behavior for female sparrows? Is it likely a dominance fight? Or could it have something to do with the juvenile birds that have also been coming to our feeders recently?http://gallery.me.com/longopavlik#100000
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