House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

737,414Records since 2000

MayPeak month

127Counties with records

Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan65,924

Feb51,468

Mar64,490

Apr82,047

May92,807

Jun80,275

Jul64,672

Aug51,593

Sep45,411

Oct51,574

Nov41,338

Dec43,693

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

#	County	Nation	Records
1	South Ayrshire	Scotland	52,547
2	Cambridgeshire	England	26,359
3	Kent	England	24,693
4	Norfolk	England	23,037
5	Cornwall	England	19,013
6	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	16,305
7	Suffolk	England	15,414
8	Surrey	England	14,876
9	Highland	Scotland	14,407
10	Dorset	England	12,609
11	Essex	England	12,125
12	Lincolnshire	England	12,067
13	Devon	England	11,748
14	Oxfordshire	England	10,906
15	Shetland Islands	—	10,290

568,498 England128,048 Scotland31,265 Wales9,317 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

Records since 2000: 737,414
Peak month: May
Counties with records: 127
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
Scientific name: Passer domesticus
Group: Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000: 279,413
Most recorded in: South Ayrshire, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Norfolk, Cornwall, East Riding of Yorkshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Highland, Dorset, Essex, Lincolnshire +114
Conservation designations: Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Passer
Name with authority: Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described: 1758
Contributing datasets: 49