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    Default ID on Sparrow Please

    The face of this little bird looks like it might be a Rock Sparrow. It has a yellow under beak and a more vivid stripe behind the eye. Could be a House Sparrow but I have never seen a house Sparrow with a yellow under beak.
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    I think it is a House Sparrow female Chocky, the saturation on the photo seems very high, thus emphasising the yellow on the beak.
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    Here it is cropped but nothing else. Absolutely as from the camera.
    It was the yellow under beak that struck me and Rock Sparrows have a beak like this
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    The last one is slightly different , it was taken on the Estuary where this one was.
    You are most likely right but the beak just seams different and such a vivid stripe.
    Here is why I thought it might be
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    It would have to be a vagrant if it was one, but who knows?
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    Oh it probably is a house Sparrow . I was just taken by the vivid stripe and the beak. It may well be a juvenile . The weather is such that they mate out of season . now.
    Funny that my RSPB book has them but no mention on the internet of them by the RSPB.

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    it's a female house sparrow, chocky. definetly not a rock sparrow!!
    it would be a very good rarity spot if it was.

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    Yes Rolf said . I was just confused by it's beak really and looked in my book and had to wonder about it.
    Thank you.

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