“While waiting for our car at the workshop this morning my wife and I observed a small flock of Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus malaccensis) feeding on the Axonopus compressus (carpet grass, savanna grass) *fruit (seeds?) (below).
“Some others were vigorously pulling this and other grasses for nesting material (below).”
Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
27th January 2017
Location: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Habitat: Urban enviroment
*Note: The fruits of grasses are one-seeded where the ovary wall is fused with the seed coat. Technically it is called caryopsis.