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I1ALTON HILLS OUTLOOK Friday June 19 Outlook on Lifestyle House sparrow close to towns Backyard Naturalist Disabled advocacy centre wins one in pension When man alien the environment through urbanisation or agriculture pedes of plant and animals are eliminated and absolute numbers of these that remain oftern decline dramatically As Indicated last week however some of animals and birds do prosper in the human altered landscape The story of one of the most sue cessful of our urban bird specie the Starling was told last week Another introduced bird that has successfully filled the void created by the demise of our native species the House Sparrow This bird now a familiar sight around our homes and gardens was introduced In several localities In Eastern North America during the 19th century Within a few short decades this rather drab coloured finch had occupied almost all of North America The House Sparrow has a closer association with humans than even the Starling Wheras Starlings can be found in woods and forests some distance from human habitation the House Sparrow Is almost always found close to farms towns and cities It uses buildings for nesting a popular patron of backyard feeding stations and devours seeds from the weeds that flourslh in open intended areas The real heyday of the House Sparrow In North America was log the era of the horse drawn car riagc Grain used to feed the horses became a mainstay of the sparrow diet House Sparrows multiplied pro fusely during this time They even incurred the publics wralh because of the unsightly and voluminous droppings of thUr roosting Since the passing of horse drawn trans port the House Sparrow has declined but remains one our most common birds A new challenge to the House Sparrow has cow arrived on the scene however the House Finch The House Finch is a small bird slightly shorter and thinner than tht House Sparrow but equally Its bill thick enabling it to crack large seeds and the male of Ibe species has an attractive brest and face There Is also a rarer orange coloured variant House Finches unlike their sue avian immigrant the Starling and the House Sparrow were not introduced from Europe They came instead from Western North America where they were and are a common urban resident In 1940 a New York City pet store wholesaler brought House Finches to the east to sell in the pet bird trade They were released when authorities became aware he was dealing in the illegal sale of native birds Following a pattern first established almost a century earlier by the Starling and the House Spar row the House Finch ex by i960 It occupied suitable habitat from Georgia and Alabama northward to Quebec On tario and Wisconsin I noticed the first House Finches at my feeders In the winter of 1985 Initially I confused them with the closely related and similarity coloured Pur pie Finch an Irregular visitor from the north but a quick glance at Petersons guide conflrmea them as House Finches Since my first observation House Finches have become regular visitors to my feeders though they still do not appear on a dally basis In spring their canarylike call can now be heard in Halton Hilts as pairs establish breeding territories In the area This call and the attrac tive colour of the House Finch has made It a welcome new arrival Whether Its popularity will flag in future as Its numbers Increase re mains to be seen Another uncertainty Is whether the advent of the House Finch will cause a decline in House Sparrow populations With similar eating habits and habitat requirements the more aggressive of the two may The Advocacy Centre for the Han dicapped ARCH has one another victory for the handicapped after ex tensive research and preparation was made In the case of a person en titled to a pension under the Canada Pension Plan Against the odds PAT In a patient In the Mental Health Centre at had applied for benefits as he had made suit Seen contributions to the plan lo render him eligible and he was suffering from a psychiatric disability In fact he had Veen com to indefinit on the Lieutenant Governors warrant after being found not guilty of a criminal offence by reason of in sanity His Initial application was re jected by the CPP Disability Deter Board on the grounds that he was not disabled as that term Is used in the act His appeal to the CPP review com mi tec was also denied The client himself could see no logic In a system that on the one hand declared him and a danger to himself and others yet found him not disabled for the purpose of a CPP on the other hand Prior to a hearing of the Pension Appeals Board the final level of ap peal in the CPP scheme a settlement was reached The client received his HYUNDAI COUNTRY pension payment retroactively from I960 Several serious question arose as a result of this case and ARCH will be pursuing the following concerns I The Disability Determination Board which employs doctors and II nurses who look at all appllca lions from across Canada does not 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