I sent this photo album to my cousin, Dr Ted Anderson, who got his PhD from KS U. He studied HOSP and ETSPs off and on his working life. He wrote a book "The Ubiquitous House Sparrow" published by Oxford Univ Press a few years ago.
Here is what he said about the spp i.d.: "I really enjoyed seeing these. Photo #7 is of an ETS and a house sparrow." Makes the i.d. certain. I assume the rest of the images were of HOSPs. _____ From: G Andersson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:13 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: good photos of house sparrows A lot of social behavior (mostly fighting) among sparrows from Switzerland. I think these are HOSPs but are some European Tree Sparrows? That is not a HOSP nest in the one photo, but I think it might be another species nest not related to the young sparrows. need to do some research. Gordon Andersson St Paul http://oddstuffmagazine.com/expressive-scenes-from-the-life-of-sparrow.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
