Summary

The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is one of the world’s best known and most abundant birds. It expanded across the planet along with humans over the last 10,000 years, with the spread of agriculture. Today, this plucky little bird is a model organism for the study of basic bird biology. Over 7,000 scientific studies of the House Sparrow have been published.

In this episode, we’ll get into what this species looks and sounds like, where it lives, its behavior, its breeding biology, and more.

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Links of Interest

• World Sparrow Day

Research Citations

• A revised multilocus phylogeny of Old World sparrows (Aves: Passeridae)
• Introduction, Spread, and Present Abundance of the House Sparrow in North America
• Signatures of human-commensalism in the house sparrow genome
• Single origin of human commensalism in the house sparrow
• The house sparrow in the service of basic and applied biology
• Urban House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) populations decline in North America

Photos

Attributions

• House Sparrow sounds (Xeno Canto recording XC124181)
• House Sparrow sounds (Xeno Canto recording XC543237)