Spanish Sparrow
Introduction
A close cousin of the House Sparrow but with a chestnut cap, Spanish Sparrow breeds across southern Europe and North Africa, east to south-west Asia.
Northern populations are partial migrants, while those from further south are resident. Spanish Sparrow is an extremely rare visitor to Britain, with just a handful of accepted records.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution.
European Distribution Map
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
European movements
EuroBirdPortal uses birdwatcher's records, such as those logged in BirdTrack to map the flows of birds as they arrive and depart Europe. See maps for this species here.
The Eurasian-African Migration Atlas shows movements of individual birds ringed or recovered in Europe. See maps for this species here.
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Passeridae
- Scientific name: Passer hispaniolensis
- Authority: Temminck, 1820
- BTO 5-letter code: SPASP
- Euring code number: 15920
Alternate species names
- Catalan: pardal de passa
- Czech: vrabec pokrovní
- Danish: Spansk Spurv
- Dutch: Spaanse Mus
- Estonian: pajuvarblane
- Finnish: pensasvarpunen
- French: Moineau espagnol
- German: Weidensperling
- Hungarian: berki veréb
- Icelandic: Spánarspör
- Italian: Passera sarda
- Latvian: melnkrušu zvirbulis, Spanijas zvirbulis
- Lithuanian: ispaninis žvirblis
- Norwegian: Middelhavsspurv
- Polish: wróbel sródziemnomorski
- Portuguese: pardal-espanhol
- Slovak: vrabec obojkový
- Slovenian: travniški vrabec
- Spanish: Gorrión moruno
- Swedish: spansk sparv
- Welsh: Golfan Sbaen
