hedge sparrow

Hedge sparrows and woodpeckers, for example, rarely remain still, but are accessible with a little study and knowledge.

A pair of hedge sparrows went busily on collecting bits and pieces for a nest they were tardily building in a thorn-bush.

Ornithologists had recently found that the mating games of hedge sparrows were easily as convoluted and conniving as those of humans.

In 2012 his poem "Hedge Sparrows" was chosen to represent Great Britain in the Olympics project the Written World, and recorded for BBC radio by the actor Jim Broadbent.

The name is first recorded as Dunchinton although more commonly Donketon and Coates states that this is most likely derived from Dunneca's farm or otherwise from *OE dunnocatu-n (farm of hedge sparrows).

Attenborough included excerpts from his series The Life of Birds, including a piece on hedge sparrows, and also explored Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees and their use of tools to crack nuts, and their hunting of colobus monkeys in groups.