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“Urban birds” associated with humans, such as pigeons, European starlings and house sparrows, will likely continue to survive.

For her, it was the common house sparrow, which she would observe before heading to her job teaching journalism at Loyola University New Orleans when it reopened in January 2006, five months after Katrina.

They concluded that in agricultural areas, species of greater conservation concern, like the oak titmouse, would see worse outcomes than species of lower concern, like the house sparrow.

But less than 10 miles to the northeast, in the wealthy city of San Marino, house sparrows were nowhere to be heard.

Even the common birds around here, like the grackles and house sparrows — they’re so fun to watch.