House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

House Sparrow photographed by Jess
Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, England · August 20, 2026
House Sparrow photographed by Henry Haas
New York · January 1, 2025

When to look

Reported most in May, across 23.9M open records.

Records by month. January, 2,155,509 records. February, 2,110,792 records. March, 2,126,014 records. April, 2,744,988 records. May, 3,333,314 records. June, 2,046,410 records. July, 1,746,513 records. August, 1,470,515 records. September, 1,355,529 records. October, 1,620,276 records. November, 1,515,441 records. December, 1,661,931 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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