Every now and then, I see sparrows that have reddish tints to the ends of their tails or on their heads.
2006-07-23 05:09:16 · 10 answers · asked by Boot Boot 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
sounds like you are seeing house finches not sparrows. The males sometimes have a little red on them, and sometimes it is quite bright red. Sometimes the coloring on them will look orange or even yellow. The females are duller and usually just brownish in color. Cardinals are a completely different species.
They are born cardinals and stay cardinals.
2006-07-23 12:11:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, sparrows and cardinals are two different species of birds. They are both in the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Aves, Subphylum Vertebrata, and Order Passeriformes, but are in different Families and have a different Genus and Species. The scientific name for the cardinal is Cardinalis cardinalis, are in the Family Cardinalidae. There are approximately 17 species of sparrows. They are in the Family Passeridae.
2006-07-25 07:15:20 · answer #2 · answered by fieldworking 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No a sparrow is a sparrow, a cardinal is a cardinal, two different types of birds.
2006-07-23 12:13:27 · answer #3 · answered by Z-Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are probably seeing finches. They look similar to sparrows and are about the same size. Purple finches have some red tinting.
And no, sparrows never turn into cardinals.
2006-07-23 12:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anne Teak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then they are not sparrows,
a species is a constant, and I do not see posibility of a mutation in growing stages of a specimen.
That would bee like saying that the when it is litle then you have a leopard and later when it grows old then you have a tiger.
In this world and biology there is not such thing, in sciencefiction you can find somthing in books of niven and pournell dragons of heorot.
But there is always a chance that someone catch and paints the sparrows .
2006-07-23 12:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by haruvatu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if they convert to christianity, get baptized and eventually achieve a high office in the church. Only very few will achieve that. Maybe that's why there are so many more sparrows than cardinals around?
2006-07-27 08:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by convictedidiot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're confusing sparrows, cardinals and finches. They only differ in the details and they are different types of birds. They don't transform into one another.
2006-07-23 12:37:18 · answer #7 · answered by Mausy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These could be finches instead of sparrows.....we get them at our house all the time. There are MANY kinds of sparrows as well.
2006-07-23 12:14:05 · answer #8 · answered by Lilah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sparrows and cardinals are two different breed of bird.
Answer is no.
2006-07-23 16:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if they are Catholic and extremely devout.
2006-07-23 15:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by F. Frederick Skitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋