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Passer domesticus
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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PASSERIFORMES
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Family:
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PASSERIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Passer domesticus
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Species Authority:
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Common Name/s:
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HOUSE SPARROW (Eng)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 130,000,000–270,000,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 130,000,000-270,000,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Countries:
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Native:
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Argentina; Armenia; Aruba; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Bermuda; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; China; Colombia; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Costa Rica; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Eritrea; Estonia; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Latvia; Lebanon; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malawi; Mexico; Moldova, Republic of; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nepal; Netherlands; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Somalia; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Thailand; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Turks and Caicos Islands; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Uzbekistan; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen
Introduced:
Australia; British Indian Ocean Territory; Comoros; Jamaica; Lesotho; Maldives; Mauritius; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Réunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Seychelles; Swaziland; United States; Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela
Vagrant:
Japan; Trinidad and Tobago; Viet Nam
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Habitat and Ecology
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