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By:SriPallavi Yendamuri 2a

At the November Monthly meeting for the Audubon society the topic of the night were sparrows. We talked about how hard sparrows were to find and which regions they were predominant in. There is a program in Raleigh called "lights out", in this program the buildings in raleigh are told to turn off their building lights so that the birds are not blinded by the bright lights at nights which leads to crashes and deaths of many sparrows. We looked sparrow species that are commonly found in the eastern united states:American Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Harris's Sparrow, Le Conte's Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Nelson's Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow  and the House Sparrow.

This relates to environmental science as scientists are trying to protect the species in their home habitat because that is the best was to protect a vulnerable species. They are hard to identify and are often mistaken for other birds, so if their "territory" is marked then there will be no hunting in those areas.

(various sparrows in the background)