Mystery Bird: House Sparrow, Passer domesticus

Female Cassin's Finch

Male Taco Sparrow

House Sparrow. They get everywhere!

the kipya ayonda sparrow

That's obviously a grasshopper sparrow.

Forgot to put field marks. It's a grasshopper sparrow.
1.) flat head 2.)no obvious streaks on the breast 3.) short tail

I think it is a Brewer's Sparrow because:

1. Photographed in Arizona
2. Feather Pattern and coloration on wings
3. Head Markings

Female House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)- has typically heavy-ish bill and wide stripes on the mantle. no eye-ring and full round-tipped retrices rule out Grasshopper Sparrow.

I vote for "common edible sparrow"; they're quite tasty although you have to be as desperate as Wile E. Coyote to put up with the effort of plucking and cleaning them. Personally I prefer pigeons because a single pigeon is good enough for a meal.

Female House Sparrow, even though the bill appears to be too dark.

Suggestive of an inmature clay colored sparrow or a chipping sparrow. Hint of light brown ear patch and beginnings of light streak over the eye. The dark bill is more consistant with a chipper, but the bill in the representative is exceptionally dark. Patterning above the tail is suggestive of a cassins but photo suggests this representative was seen in an open woodland setting. That would rule out the cassin's and clay colored sparrow. I would go with an immature Chipping Sparrow

you are making this bird too difficult to identify .. perhaps it's because this bird is presented immediately after that african raptor that no one has YET managed to identify -- after 2 days?

hints: very slight notched to the tail and lack of any stripes on the head rules out grasshopper sparrow which has two very sharp points on its notched tail and a strong and distinctive pattern of head stripes (malar stripe, etc); clear breast and head rules out female cassin's finch, which has streaks on both the breast and head; lack of streaking on face and sides rule out brewer's sparrow, which has a distinctive facial pattern in particular; lack of breast and head stripes rules out immature chipping sparrow -- especially the lack of that dark stripe passing through the eye.