House sparrow

Get to know the House Sparrow, a common yet charismatic bird that frequents gardens and urban areas. Explore its habitat, diet, and fascinating social behaviour.

Learn what a male and female house sparrow looks like, what foods this bird eats, what it sounds like, and why birders dislike this species.

House sparrows are noisy and gregarious, often going around together in small flocks. Find out more abut house sparrows

House Sparrow

People fed them like pets, providing with free space to breed, and it, in turn, maintained the markets from getting dirty.

You can find House Sparrows most places where there are houses (or other buildings), and few places where there aren’t. Along with two other introduced species, the European Starling and the Rock Pigeon, these are some of our most common birds. Their constant presence outside our doors makes them easy to overlook, and their tendency to displace native birds from nest boxes causes some people to resent them. But House Sparrows, with their capacity to live so intimately with us, are just…

Here's the Female House Sparrow! Spied along a male of the species in May of 2012 in Central Arkansas:)

House Sparrow Passer domesticus (female)

House Sparrow, most widely distributed wild bird, Americas, Africa, Australia, Eurasia, & Mediterranean region

Picture of a brown sparrow.