House Sparrow

The Science of Birds

This episode—which is number 93—is all about the the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), 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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2024-03-20 49 min

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