Medium-sized, stocky sparrow with
black-streaked brown upperparts and pale gray underparts. Wings are brown with single white bar. Cheeks and crown are pale gray, contrasting with black throat, upper breast, and bill. Legs are shorter and black bill is thicker
than in native sparrows.

The male House Sparrow has black-streaked brown upperparts and
pale gray underparts. The wings are brown with a single white bar. The cheeks and crown are pale gray, contrasting with a black throat, upper breast, and bill.



HOUSE SPARROW
Passer domesticus
PASSERIFORMES
Old World Sparrows (Passeridae)


Range and Habitat

Native to Britain, northern Scandinavia, and northern Siberia to northern Africa, Arabia, India, and Burma. Introduced and established worldwide except in Antarctica; resident throughout temperate North America. Preferred habitats include cities, towns, and agricultural areas.

SOUND: "cheep-cheep-cheep"

The Old Testament Bible associates the symbol of the sparrow with loneliness.and solitude, while the New Testament views it as a sign of insignificance. Poor House Sparrow.
In Japan the sparrow is traditionally a symbol of loyalty,
perhaps because of its socialable nature and how it
gets along in large numbers.

These birds return to their birthplace after every migration (a characteristic known as philopatric). Because of this, local populations have adapted to the color of their habitat resulting in 15 distinct subspecies in the West.

A group of house sparrows are collectively known as a "blight", "humiliation", and "subdivision" of sparrows.

The House Sparrow is rated as Least Concern. The range of this bird species is around 10 million kilometers at this time. The population of the House Sparrow is extremely large. It is estimated that the population of this bird in Europe alone could be as large as 270 million individual birds, not including its population in many other parts of the world. The prior rating for this bird species was Lower Risk.
Due to the extremely large range and population of this bird species there are no immediate concerns.

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