Thanks! Yeah, we've got, among other things, "English" Sparrows for that reason. They aren't English, nor are they Sparrows, but we've got them due to 19th Century nostalgia.

ON THE OTHER HAND, one day I noticed a gang of them on my back patio searching under the furniture. They were methodically finding and carrying off the Brown Widow and Black Widow spiders that love to live under lawn furniture in Southern California, the former a Mexican species that we have courtesy of NAFTA and/or global warming... I used to cuss those little birds. Not any more.