Too many people denigrate the birds that, to be honest, I have more than a sneaking regard for - the survivors, the "in your face - what you gonna abart it then?" sort of birds. On this page some small attempt is made to rehabilitate, in no particular order, House Sparrows, Common Grackles, Brown-headed Cowbirds (a hard sell, but I'll try), American Crows and European Starlings.

The Common Grackle - Quiscale bonzé (Quiscalus quiscula) shares lunch with a House Sparrow

..... and then gives the world the 'evil eye'

A House Sparrow - Moineau domestique (Passer domesticus) - in home making mode :

"This'll do for my nest ...... drat, dropped it !"

The American Crow - Corneille d'Amerique (Corvus brachyrhyncos)