When House Sparrows Attack

Tony Carita captured this unusual footage inside a nestbox, where House Sparrows had been destroying bluebird eggs. It's difficult to identify the other bird, but it appears to be another House Sparrow.

House Sparrows are very aggressive. They will harrass other cavity-nesting birds, peck eggs, and kill nestlings and toss them from the nestbox. They will also kill adults, usually by trapping them inside the box and pecking their heads, sometimes decapitating them. You can see how difficult it would be for another bird to escape this strong, crushing beak. These non-native birds pose a real threat to native species like bluebirds, Purple Martins, chickadees and others.

PS It's POSSIBLE this is actually two House Sparrows mating - but in any case, it looks pretty brutal.

For more information about House Sparrows see http://www.sialis.org

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Pets & Animals

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• house
• sparrow
• attack
• bluebird

[dayglowgreendoor]

I'm a fascist and would kill all of them if possible.

[dayglowgreendoor]

Buy a repeating trap. I usually get a few dozen per year. Sometimes as many as 8 or 9 at a time.

[ccoraxfan]

It's at a different level, for sure. But I thought you would be able to see the similarity between these two scenarios. I guess I was expecting too much.

You might notice that I was not comparing the horrors of the holocaust with sparrows, I was comparing attitudes and methods. I was not the one who brought up the facsism, but I did see the parallel the other commenter was speaking of.

If YouTube comments make you so angry, perhaps it's best if you do cancel.

[StellaDjango]

That's the worst moral equivalence I've seen: equating the horrors of the Holocaust to house sparrows is sickening.

How did the Nazis react to dissenters? They labeled them with pejorative names, like labeling "fascist" anyone who does not agree about sparrow.

Here's a fact check errand for you: look up IRONIC.

Go ahead, keep posting your busybody self-righteous revisionist bilge. I'm canceling my Youtube registration . The next time you compare Jews to birds I won't be around to see it.

[ccoraxfan]

For StellaDjango, a fact check:

1) American laws are not worldwide.

2) There are 3 species, not 2.

3) House sparrows are threatened in Europe.

4) Fascism seeks an object to blame for some problem, then tries to destroy that object "for the better good." Whether it be Jews for Germans or sparrows for bluebirds, it's still fascist, and all suffer from it. I've seen people destroy bluebirds while trying to destroy sparrows. And are sparrows really to blame for the decline of bluebirds?

[ccoraxfan]

I don't want attention for myself. What I want is for people to realize how stupid it is to love one species of bird and hate another, when they are all God's creatures and here for a purpose.  We shouldn't take lightly the destruction of any animal.

[ccoraxfan]

No, actually they were all born here. Their ancestors came from Europe, as did most of the people now living in North America, and who knows how many other species of birds that were already here when Europeans arrived. Birds, even small ones, travel the globe all the time, as do people. And like us, they sometimes stay.

[rednecktrapper21]

bartempira,

damn right brother

[rednecktrapper21]

non-native to North America dumb ass hippie, they came here from Europe

[rednecktrapper21]

i think your just trying to get attention by leaving all these comments