Lost bird helps raise funds

LONDON -- A white-crowned North American sparrow blown across the Atlantic Ocean on winter winds is helping raise funds to repair the roof of an ancient church in the tiny English village where it landed.

"Twitchers"--bird spotters--are turning up by the thousands to see the seven-inch sparrow in the Norfolk village of Cley-next-the-Sea. They have chipped in more than $6,000 in donations that will be used to mend the 13th-century roof of the village's Church of St. Margaret

of Antioch.

--Religion News Service

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