Cape Sparrows are found throughout South Africa with slight variances on their coloring. A small bird they build ridiculously large nests. The following photographs were taken in my back yard this morning.
Cape sparrows prefer to roost in nests, and while wandering outside of the breeding season, birds in uncultivated areas roost socially in old nests or dense bushes. In farmland and towns, Cape sparrows build special nests for roosting, lined more poorly than breeding nests but incorporating a greater quantity of insulating material.
Male sparrow and his young sitting on our feeding platform. We have generation in our yard....
Along comes Mom
The Cape sparrow is social, lives in flocks, and usually breeds in colonies. Away from settled areas it spends much of the year wandering nomadically, in flocks of up to 200 birds. In cultivated and built up areas, smaller flocks form where food is provided for livestock or birds. In such places, it associates with other seed-eating birds, such as the house sparrow and the Cape weaver…. My hated enemy
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