This is the best way to trap House Sparrows! We have trapped and eliminated 20 of them this year! We put up a bluebird house just for this trap. We are protecting our bluebirds and purple martins too!

I use this on "X-Box" style bluebird houses (this design has a slot entrance). They work great, never allowing a house sparrow (or any other bird for that matter) escape.I recommend using a large mesh laundry bag to totally enclose your nest box before opening the door. Sparrows are very fast and sneaky and are hard to reliably catch with just your hands. Over the last 4 days I've removed four male house sparrows from the population using this trap.

This trap very quickly captured two elusive male house sparrows in my yard.We have two bluebird boxes. One had been taken over by house sparrows, who built nests and started laying eggs. I removed their nest and destroying the eggs every two or three days for several weeks, but they just wouldn’t give up. I managed to capture two females simply by sneaking up on the house and covering the opening with my hand and reaching inside to grab them. But the males were much more wary, and I was never able to catch one. They stuck around and kept the bluebirds from nesting even without any female sparrows. So I bought this trap.I cleaned out the sparrow nest from house #1 and set the trap. Within five minutes one of the males had gone inside, I assume to inspect the nest, having seen it tampered with. He was trapped. I actually was not able to catch him, but he has not come back for about four days now. I think he was pretty terrified at the big monster hand grabbing at him. I have seen no more house sparrows at that house now for about four days, which is the longest period I have seen without sparrow activity at that house. As for house number two, bluebirds had built a perfect, beautiful cup nest, but a male house sparrow kept bullying them away from the box. So I carefully removed the nest (because the trap won’t work with a nest in place) and set it in a cardboard box to preserve its shape.I set the trap. Again, within five minutes, the male house sparrow had gone inside to assess the nest, and he was trapped. I was able to catch him and he was “relocated”, so to speak. I was able to replace the bluebird nest in the box with very little damage as far as I can tell, so hopefully the bluebirds can return home with minimal extra work.This trap has performed perfectly so far, and has done exactly what it’s meant to do. I love that it’s a humane trap so I don’t have to worry about accidentally killing native birds. I also love that it is designed such that you can set mounting screws in multiple houses and use the trap as needed in the house with the problem. I feel that even if you have more than two houses like me, one trap will work effectively. I’ve had no need to leave the trap in one house more than a few minutes, which avoids trapping a bird to die from thirst or starvation.Having trapped two house sparrows, I do think this may be a winning recipe: remove the existing nest, immediately set the trap (takes 5 seconds if you have the mounting screws in place already), walk away and watch for the red spot to appear. For me it’s been 100% effective within about five minutes both times.I hope to see the bluebirds raising young here again within a few weeks.

Took less than ten minutes to install because I had to take side door off of bird house. Sat back and watched. The bluebirds showed up and kept looking in the house but didn’t go in. Shortly thereafter the male house sparrow bombed the bluebirds and flew right in the house. Heard the snap from 40 feet away and saw the red indicator circle. Dispatches of sparrow, removed trap and the bluebirds instantly started building their nest. Worth every penny as last week the male house sparrow trapped my male bluebird in the house and killed him. Luckily female had a new partner the next day.

The sides were a bit too wide, but hubby fixed it. Works great