House Sparrow at the fountain
Passer domesticus
House Sparrow · Central Park · 26 October 2025
A House Sparrow with its wings half-raised mid-splash on the rim of a bronze fountain in Central Park, water still hanging in the air around it. House Sparrows live wherever people do, and a Central Park fountain is about as far from a wild sparrow's life as the species has managed anywhere.
The statuary is doing double duty as backdrop and birdbath. Every House Sparrow in North America descends from a few dozen birds released in Brooklyn in the 1850s.
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