Prakruti Parichay
PasseridaePasser

Dead Sea Sparrow

Passer mosbiticus

12.2–12.2 cmVery Small
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Winter visitor. Baluchistan. Breeding male has largely grey head with prominent buff supercilium a ndblack stripe through eye, small black throat patch, broad white submoustachial stripe, and yellow patch on side of neck. Further. has yellow wash to underparts. and chestnut coverts forming panel on wing. Non - breeding male has grey of head suffused with sandy-olive. and black of chin and throat are tipped with whitish. Female is smaller and slimmer than House and has more prominent bullish-white supercilium, indistinct yellow spot on side of neck, sandy-buff upperparts. and yellowish wash to underparts. Bushes near streams.

Colour

WhiteYellowGreyBuff / Tan
Average size
12.2 cm
Habitat
Bushes near streams.
Behaviour
Winter visitor.

About this bird

Winter visitor. Baluchistan. Breeding male has largely grey head with prominent buff supercilium a ndblack stripe through eye, small black throat patch, broad white submoustachial stripe, and yellow patch on side of neck. Further. has yellow wash to underparts. and chestnut coverts forming panel on wing. Non - breeding male has grey of head suffused with sandy-olive. and black of chin and throat are tipped with whitish. Female is smaller and slimmer than House and has more prominent bullish-white supercilium, indistinct yellow spot on side of neck, sandy-buff upperparts. and yellowish wash to underparts. Bushes near streams.

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Dead Sea Sparrow is bigger than Aberrant Bush Warbler but smaller than Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch.

This bird

Dead Sea Sparrow

Passer mosbiticus

12.2–12.2 cm