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The sparrow on exhibit in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. The Domino Day 2005 house sparrow, generally known as the domino sparrow (Dutch: dominomus), was a house sparrow (Passer domesticus) that was shot and killed by a hunter from the company Duke Faunabeheer in the Frisian Expo Centre in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, during preparations for Domino Day 2005 on 14 November 2005.
Zoology, ornithology. Institutions. Director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. Website. moeliker.wordpress.com. Cornelis W. " Kees " Moeliker (born 9 October 1960) is a Dutch biologist and director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. [1][2] He is also European Bureau Chief of the Annals of Improbable Research.
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of 16 cm (6.3 in) and a mass of 24–39.5 g (0.85–1.39 oz). Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, and males have brighter black, white, and brown markings.
The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
Old World sparrows are small passerine birds. In general, sparrows tend to be small, plump, brown or grey birds with short tails and short powerful beaks. Sparrows are seed eaters, but they also consume small insects. House sparrow, Passer domesticus; Italian sparrow, Passer italiae (A) Spanish sparrow, Passer hispaniolensis (A)
Princess Irene of the Netherlands, 1939, m. (1964–1981) Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma, 4 children not eligible for throne. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, 1943–. Pieter van Vollenhoven. Princess Christina of the Netherlands, (1947–2019), m. Jorge Pérez y Guillermo (m. 1975; div. 1996), 3 children not eligible for throne.
Summers-Smith was a founding member of his local bird club (The Teesmouth Bird Club) in 1960, and he wrote the instructions for the British Trust for Ornithology 's first Common Bird Census in 1962. [6] His study of the house sparrow resulted not only in a number of papers in respected journals, but also in his 1963 monograph The House Sparrow ...
Ammopasser Zarudny, 1880. Passer is a genus of sparrows, also known as the true sparrows. The genus contains 28 species and includes the house sparrow and the Eurasian tree sparrow, two of the most common birds in the world. They are small birds with thick bills for eating seeds, and are mostly coloured grey or brown.