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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-04T14:31:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-04T14:31:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1979 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Summers-Smith, D. (1979). The Spanish sparrow in Malta. Il-Merill, 19, 9-10. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39470 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The House Sparrow Passer domesticus and Spanish Sparrow. Passer hispaniolensis are a fascinating species pair. Over most of the range where both occur, they exist as good species, the House Sparrow living in towns and villages in close association with man, the Spanish Sparrow in the country, particularly associated with damper localities. However, in certain parts of the Mediterranean basin, particularly northern Algeria and western Tunisia, the two species interbreed freely forming a complete range of hybrids of intermediate plumage. The birds in Italy form a stable hybrid population and are now recognised by most authorities as a subspecies of Passer domesticus. To a lesser extent hybridisation occurs on a small scale in other parts; for example, I found a small hybrid population beside Lake Scutari in southern Yugoslavia some years ago and others are reported from time to time. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Malta Ornithological Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | House sparrow -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Birds -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Passer | en_GB |
dc.subject | Passeridae | en_GB |
dc.subject | Passeriformes | en_GB |
dc.title | The Spanish sparrow in Malta | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Il-Merill | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Summers-Smith, Denis | - |
Appears in Collections: | Il-Merill : issue 19 : 1978 Il-Merill : issue 19 : 1978 |
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