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Where does the Spanish Sparrow live?

Passer hispaniolensis has 323,179 records in 86 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Spanish Sparrow
Spanish Sparrow — Francesco Canu / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesPasseridaePasser

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 178,979
Israel 37,596
Portugal 28,339
Türkiye 12,653
Greece 10,196
Bulgaria 7,406
Italy 5,725
Cyprus 5,230
Malta 4,031
Morocco 3,867
Iran 3,106
Tunisia 2,666
Kuwait 2,039
Croatia 1,925
Cabo Verde 1,855
Palestine 1,346
Romania 1,320
Algeria 1,225
Georgia 1,192
Egypt 1,000
Azerbaijan 826
Qatar 758
Saudi Arabia 720
Netherlands 692
Jordan 655
Albania 551
Russia 530
India 528
Kazakhstan 518
France 469
Ukraine 443
Afghanistan 430
North Macedonia 350
United Kingdom 319
Libya 305
Uzbekistan 280
Sweden 267
Bosnia & Herzegovina 238
Iraq 224
Lebanon 177

Showing the top 40 of 86 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.