Sparrow

sparrow name of several small birds perched brown and gray. New World birds called sparrows are members of the family of finches. They were named for their resemblance to the English sparrow and European tree sparrow (members of the weaver bird family), both introduced in the Americas. Members of both groups have peaks robust, conical adapted to eating seeds. Among the sparrows in the United States are singing, White-throated Sparrow Sparrow (or Peabody bird), and chipping, white crowned evening, Lincoln, fox, field, mountain, and Marsh sparrows. Sparrows are valuable to farmers to destroy weed seeds. Originally sparrow meant any small bird, the word appears in this sense in Greek mythology and the Scriptures.