A bird of temperate scrub and desert in central Asia. This one was photographed in a cemetery!Passer ammodendriOn this birding trip, I gave up on using an adapter and grabbed some hand-held digiscoping shots.
Description: English: A male Saxaul Sparrow, of subspecies Passer ammodendri nigricans in a cemetery in southeastern Kazakhstan. Date: 20 May 2007. Source: Flickr here at Flickr. Author: Flickr user Alastair Rae at Flickr. Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Passer ammodendri ammodendri male 1.jpg.