Incredible sparrow copulation close-up on Lundy Island, UK

A female house sparrow is entering and leaving her nest box on Lundy Island, UK. Shen then solicits copulation from a male house sparrow.
The video was recorded by Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
https://twitter.com/asanchez_tojar?la...
during his fieldwork in summer 2014. The female and male are part of a wild population of house sparrows that has been systematically
monitored for almost two decades by researchers of the Lundy Sparrow Group:
https://twitter.com/LundySprogs?lang=de
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/molecol/p...
http://lundysparrows.blogspot.de
The behaviour displayed by the female and its importance for the realisation of copulation is described here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early...

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