Every March 20 a special day is celebrated around the world and it is the day dedicated to the sparrow. It is a bird that has a worldwide distribution, since it reached several continents thanks to the human being through its maritime transfers in boats.
According to some scholars, there are currently 150 million specimens of this popular species in America. A study by the University of Granada reveals that the females of the sparrow they called the male if there were few feathers to pad the nest.
Believe it or not, the sparrow It is famous in the history of Egypt. The specialists maintain that there is a hieroglyph that reminds this bird and that it represents smallness, evil and disease. Currently, he had to change his habits because of the noise of the cities.
In the story of this bird there is a disastrous chapter that occurred when, in China, Mao Zedong decreed their extermination as part of the campaign against the four plagues (mice, mosquitoes, flies and sparrows) because they ate grain. Now, they promote their protection.
Some cultures, such as the Greek, associated the sparrow with lust, since it was the symbol that could represent Aphrodite.the goddess of love, beauty, reproduction, and desire in ancient Greek mythology.
They are markers of biodiversity and climate change. And although some hate that it eats grains, it also feeds on insects and that makes it beneficial for the field. However, in the city they are seen less and less.
a mysterious arrival
It is known that the United States sparrow It arrived in 1850. In Philadelphia, hundreds of sparrows were released to fight the caterpillars that destroyed plants in orchards and gardens.
About when he arrived in Argentina, there are those who say that Sarmiento brought him; others say that he arrived on a sailing ship from Liverpool. They say that it was Emilio Bieckert, a Swiss-German brewer who carried these birds in a cage to keep close the memory of his native country..
