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- I live in central Illinois and we have a large population of Eurasian Sparrows. In late summer they have all stopped using our feeders every year, but now have returned and feed heavily. Do these sparrows migrate North in hot summer months? The resident House Sparrows appear to have a pecking order at the feeders and the Eurasian Sparrows tend to have a dominant role at the feeders.
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What species is it? This would help me figure it out.
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Annabeth, I think they are Eurasian Tree Sparrows, which have an established in population on the Illinois/Indiana border up to Chicago. And James, I do not no much about the Eurasian Sparrows, though sometimes almost all birds leave feeders in late summer/early fall because there is much more wild, living food around. Than they come back during other times of the year. It happens to me every year.
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