House Sparrow

Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

House Sparrow, Passer domesticus, lives across the Palearctic, the Oriental Region and Africa, and has been introduced almost everywhere else. It is closely tied to places shaped by people, from towns and villages to other human-made settings. Its breeding range runs from the Faroe and British Isles through northern Scandinavia and across subarctic Russia to Kamchatka, and south through the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, the Nile Valley, northern Eritrea, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Sri Lanka and much of northern, central and south-eastern Asia. Outside breeding, it makes only short-range movements.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passeridae — Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches

Breeding range

Palearctic, Oriental Region, Africa: mainly subarctic to subtropical Palearctic and Oriental region in anthropogenic habitats: Faroe and British Isles, n Scandinavia e through subarctic Russia to Kamchatka; in s through Iberian Pen., n Africa including Nile Valley, n Eritrea, Arabian Pen., India and Sri Lanka, through n, c se Asia; introduced nearly worldwide

Nonbreeding range

some short-range dispersal