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New Zealand introduced bird, the House Sparrow.
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New Zealand Birds redirect  Please update your bookmarks. If you are not redirected after 5 seconds, please click here....
http://nzbirds.com/Sparrow.html

Article from the Christian Science Monitor about the decline of House Sparrows.
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In Europe, the case of the missing sparrows csmonitor.com  Strongmen to score big in Afghan vote French inch toward social reform US to shift key Okinawa base Reporters on the Job Africa's peace seekers Lebanon's elections Afghanistan's opium war Two Indonesian families rebuild What place for God in Europe?...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1227/p01s03-woeu.html

Information on House Sparrow decline from The British Trust for Ornithology.
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 Much has been written about the plight of the “cheery cockney sparrow However, the fall in numbers of House Sparrows is by no means restricted to London Throughout the country, we have Garden BirdWatchers bemoaning the loss of this most...
http://www.bto.org/appeals/house_sparrow.htm

Photograph of this species plus brief facts.
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Red-headed Weaver, Anaplectes rubriceps  Local in bushed and wooded country below 1800m, generally avoiding very wet or very dry country and therefore uncommon in the North and East of Kenya A very distinctive weaver, usually seen alone or in pairs. The birds pictured above...
http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/red-headed_weaver.htm