The House Sparrow has a grey crown, a white underbelly, brown wings with bits of black and yellow, and a small, wedged beak. Accustomed to human dwellings, it forages for insects in livestock manure, vehicle grills and bumpers, trash, food scraps, and near vegetation.
Fun Fact Technically a member of the weaver—finch family, House Sparrows were introduced to the US in the 1850s to aleviate insect problems. The territorial birds soon began to inhabit abandoned human dwellings like old ghost towns and dilapidated buildings, usurping local populations of blue—birds and swallows.