![]() It occurs as well in urban centres and farmland. It prefers semi-arid savanna, thornveld, and light woodland. ![]() Similar species: Female is distinguished from female House Sparrow and Great Sparrow by its plain chestnut back, and by its grey head and faint shadow markings of the male's pied head pattern.ĭistribution: It is found in southern Africa, occurring from south-western Angola to Namibia (excluding the north-east), southern Botswana, south-western Zimbabwe and across South Africa, where it is particularly common. ![]() The head is coloured black, white while the bill is coloured black. The juvenile is like the female, but young males show black on the head from an early age. The female has a grey head with a different pattern from the male, though it bears a hint of the pale head markings of the male. The male has a white and a black wing bar below its shoulders, and flight feathers and tail streaked grey and black. The male’s back is neck is dark grey, and its back and shoulders are bright chestnut. The underparts are greyish, darker on the flanks. The breeding male has a mostly black head with a broad white mark from behind the eye to the throat. Male is unmistakable: it is the only sparrow in the region to have a pied head. It has brown legs and a brown coloured back. This species with its black and white head pattern is more bunting-like than it is sparrow-like. Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus.jpg (65.25 KiB) Viewed 718 times
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