The Secret Life of Sparrows: Amazing Facts About These Common Birds

The Secret Life of Sparrows: Amazing Facts About These Common Birds

You may have seen this bird somewhere in the sky. All people like the voice of this bird. This bird looks so small and very beautiful. The number of these birds is getting low day to day because of people hunting. You are still thinking about the bird. So the name of this beautiful bird is sparrow.

In this article, we will tell you the amazing facts about the sparrow that you have not heard before now. If you read this article till the end then you will get all information related to sparrow.

Fact 1:

The size of the sparrow is very small. The physical look of the sparrow makes the people mad. The small and short wings of sparrow help them in flying. The surrounding of their eyes is black. The length of the sparrow is about 16 cm and the weight of the sparrow is around 25 to 40 grams. Sparrow can fly with the speed of 10 to 15 miles per hour.

Fact 2:

The 20th march of every year is celebrated as the sparrow day in the whole world. At the start of 2010 the population of sparrows started to decrease. At that time there were 40 to 45 breeds of sparrows but now most of their breeds have vanished.

You can differentiate between male sparrow and female sparrow after looking over their colors. The female sparrow color is brown whereas the male sparrow color is dark brown. In the jungle the sparrow usually eats small insects. But in the populated areas of the human sparrow eat seeds and fruits.

Fact 3:

At the end of 1950, it was ordered by the government to kill the sparrow because they were ruining the fields. In the absence of sparrows the number of insects in fields were increased, so the number of insects looked more than the corn in the field. You can assume from this how sparrows like to eat insects.

There is only the DNA of female sparrows in their babies. But there are some eggs of sparrows in which both male and female DNA are present. Sparrows take off 3 to 5 eggs in a month. The baby sparrows take birth after 12 to 15 days from these eggs. Male and female both care for the eggs and their baby sparrows. The sparrow baby can fly after 15 days of birth.

Fact 4:

Normally, it is the responsibility of male sparrow to make nests. When male sparrow completes the nest then the female sparrow take off eggs happily in the nest. Because of their small size they need only a small amount of food. After eating a small amount of food they can easily fly for a longer time.

The wild sparrow can stay alive for 3 to 5 years but the sparrow you adopt at home can stay alive for 13 to 15 years. Sparrows can also swim in the water, they can move from one place to another while swimming over the water instead of flying.

Fact 5:

You have observed that sparrows never walk straight, they walk like jumping. There are few breeds of sparrows that can survive over the height of 3 to 4 thousand feet. They can fly over the height of 10 to 15 thousand feet. The strength of sparrows is going to be small in numbers. Now it will not look to you as usual.

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