YES, SPARROWS DO KILL OTHER SPARROWS
Yes i have seen this happen. (she has seen sparrows killing sparrows!)
we have bird houses set up we love our garden sparrows and love watching them nest,but this year we had sparrows killing other sparrows and killing all oue little baby sparrows as well.
now all the sparrows have left their houses and our yard, it was a very sad thing to watch
Char sent me her story of what she had seen. Previously she had asked about sparrows killing sparrows. Click the link below if you would like to read it.
DO SPARROWS KILL OTHER BABY BIRDS
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I replied
You have seen it happen! Can I ask where you live? The world of birds is so strange isn’t it? I know robins fight robins, and I have found out that sparrows can be thugs, but sparrows killing sparrows!! Also sparrows killing young sparrows. I wonder if some where house sparrows and some where tree sparrows. I wonder if there was a shortage of food and so they killed to get the food – but that does not really make sense does it?
I am sure it would have been sad to watch. You think of spring as being a time of re birth not a time of slaughter. Think of all the other birds that are toiling to feed their young and watch the other fledglings as they visit your garden and grow and surive. Trisha
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Please get in touch if you have seen or heard of this happening.
on June 5th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Sparrows nest under the eaves of our house. Today my husband heard a thud, and 2 sparrows’ eggs were on the ground below. He’d only seen sparrows going back and forth, so it seems rival sparrows had attacked the nest. One egg was nearly ready to hatch. Such a shame.
on April 9th, 2011 at 6:50 am
We have creeper growing over our house. Every year we have several pairs of house sparrows nest in it successfully. Yesterday, there was a commotion and several sparrows emerged from the ivy, fighting in the air. They were pecking and harrassing one particular male, who then fell to the ground – stone dead. I have never seen such behaviour before.
on April 15th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Amazing. We see a flock of sparrows every day. They are tree sparrows though. These sparrows spend ages on the grass together pecking at the bird food and some open soil that I have near the feeders. I still find it hard to realise that birds do kill birds. I know robins fight to the death sometimes, but watching robins it is hard to believe that as well.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
There is so much we will never know about birds. I wonder what this house sparrow had done. It must have broken some sparrow law!
Trisha
on May 20th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
We have several bird feeders in our back yard and every day for the past week we have had dead sparrows, one day 4. Their beaks and sometimes their heads have been pecked or eaten off. We haven’t seen them kill each other but they certainly do fight constantly. We are thinking of taking down the feeders to prevent the killing.
on May 20th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
This sounds horrible, especially when it should be a time of nesting and new life.
It may be a good idea to take the feeders down, but then would these attacks happen somewhere else.
It may not be sparrows.
Take a look at my category about bird eating bird http://birdtablenews.com/category/bird-eating-bird/
There seems to be a lot of mayhem going on in our civilised gardens. Nature.