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There may be as many bird houses in Oriental as human ones. This one on Freemason Street is already occupied. TownDock.net’s birding expert Liz Lathrop says this is a “male House Sparrow, not native, introduced to New York in 1850 and spread to California by 1910, likes the houses we put up for Bluebirds. Found most often near towns.” (click for the big view)