Trapping House Sparrows

Good for you for making this video. We need more awareness. I don't think people realize that if invasive species are left unchecked, it can lead to endangerment status or even extinction.

SO many people talk about trapping them, but no one talks about HOW to dispatch them.

I recently have been doing research and decided to go with the van ert traps. They have a website and seem to be some of the cheapest as well as most effective traps for house sparrows and starlings.

Nice ideias

Had no idea

Can you make a video about the European/Common Starling?

I saw a hawk eat sparrows. It may be a good thing to keep them? They’re a good food source. Or else they try to eat blue jays.

Thank you for sharing. I have had better luck with Sparrow traps with two main differences. First, traps with the entrance (and potential exit) along a wall are more likely escape able. Traps with the entrances to the center of the trap are less escapable. Second, traps with two chambers tend to be more secure. I built a ground funnel trap with two entrances to the center of the first chamber. The barrier between the first and second chamber slopes upward. This naturally progresses the captured bird upward and into an internal ceiling mounted funnel exiting into the holding chamber. Birds drop from the internal funnel and cannot physically re-navigate the inverted tunnel to re-enter the first chamber.

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God bless you.

A repeater trap is the best.

Good video. I'm just now learning how vicious these can be, killing other birds and building their nests right over them. There are some pretty gruesome videos out there showing these attacking bluebirds and others, to take over their nests. I'll be trapping them from now on and feeding them to other wildlife. Thanks for your video.

Shocking

What is the best bait to use for sparrows? Pop corn,bread,milet,milo?

Good job helping the natives

i must trap sparrow bc i want to pet it dont judge me

Where did you get that specific trap?

I absolutely hate House Sparrows with a passion. What they do to Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, and other native cavity nesting birds is just absolutely disgusting. I am glad that there are people that are aware of the destruction they cause and of course there are the stubborn people who don't even think that they are destructive that will let them nest on their property.

I catch them and keep them in my aviary. I feel bad for killing, but want to remove them as much as i can

I'm all for evicting invasive bird nests and eggs from bird houses but leave the live birds and babies alone. It's not their fault they are here. So, put up bird houses and remove house sparrow or starling nests and eggs when you see them nesting there. If enough bird houses are kept free of these invasive birds, native birds will have places to nest. In Connecticut this is done, and native birds (mainly the bluebird) have returned and are increasing in their numbers. It's no use killing the invasive birds as they will always be here now.