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House sparrow male in Prospect Park (53532)🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesPasseridae
Birds

🐦House Sparrow

Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

O pardal-doméstico ou pardal-do-telhado (Passer domesticus) é uma ave da família Passeridae bastante comum em Portugal. A sua distribuição geográfica compreendia, originalmente, a maior parte da Europa e da Ásia, tendo sido introduzido acidental ou propositadamente na maioria da América, África subsariana, Austrália e Nova Zelândia. É atualmente a espécie de ave com maior distribuição geográfica no mundo.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/2,340th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.03 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the House Sparrow

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.03 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.03 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
11 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for House Sparrow yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyPasseridae
  6. ›genusPasser
  7. ›speciesPasser domesticus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusPasser
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusPasser
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More about the House Sparrow

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow — last shared an ancestor ≈ 6.7 million years ago.
In other languages
Passer domesticus (nl), wróbel (zwyczajny) (pl), Pardal-doméstico (pt), vrabec domový (sk), обични врабац (sr), นกกระจอกใหญ่ (th) … and 28 more languages

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