Dead Sea Sparrow

Description:

from wikipedia : "This is a small 12–13 cm long sparrow. The male Dead Sea sparrow has a grey crown, rear neck and cheeks, and a small black bib. It has a pale supercilium shading to buff at the rear, and yellow neck sides. The upperparts are dark-streaked reddish brown, and the underparts are grey-white. The female is like a small house sparrow, with a streaked brown back, greyish head and buff-white underparts. She is paler and smaller billed than the house sparrow, and sometimes shows yellow on the neck sides. The eastern race P. m. yatii is sandier, and the male has a yellow wash to the underparts. This species is often silent.

Habitat:

This species feeds principally on seeds, like other sparrows. It breeds in dry lowlands with some shrubs and access to water. It builds a nest in a tree, and four to seven eggs are laid. As its name suggests, is a breeding bird around the River Jordan, Dead Sea, and into Iraq, Iran and western Afghanistan. This species is migratory, the eastern subspecies (P.m. yetii) wintering in western Pakistan, but the regular wintering grounds of the western subspecies are largely unknown. Flocks of the nominate western race have been found in winter further south in the Middle East. - from Wikipedia-