Despite the name, these invasive birds are not actually sparrows but weaver finches, related to other weavers in Africa and elsewhere. European Starling Starlings, which are from Europe and Asia, ...

A small gray dove with black fringes on the feathers of ... on the underwing coverts could lead the unwary to identify such a bird as a ruddy ground-dove. The scaling of the upperparts is unique.

A large, pale gray-buff dove with a black collar ... may have escaped or been released from captivity by dove breeders, but most birds are thought to represent genuinely wild colonizers.