The Department of Transportation will not be removing the House Sparrow nest from a crosswalk signal in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was determined that the sparrows were not negatively effecting the function of the signal.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
I’m glad this is the outcome; this was a big “are you kidding me?” when the DOT initially stated they’d remove them (they had the caveat “if they’re interfering with the signal,” or whatever, but I questioned whether they’d consider that appropriately). The pic in the Post was great…