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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

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A male probable member of the indicus group (foreground) and a male domesticus House Sparrow in western Kazakhstan. Then there is the fact that indicus sparrows tend to avoid human habitations while domesticus doesn’t, leading to sympatric breeding with a disputed amount of hybridisation.

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