The Spanish Sparrow is in the Passeridae family in the Passerine order. It is 14.5-16.7 cm in size and 20-32 grams in weight. It is very similar to the House Sparrow but it is much more impressive and appealing. The two species are closely related and occasionally even hybridize together. The females look almost identical to the females of the House sparrow except for a faded brown striping on the breast and sides of the belly, but the males have a chestnut-brown cap that is contrasting to a white eyebrow stripe. Their cheeks are white and the chin is black, and they have obvious black striping on the chest and the sides of the belly. The colors are gradually getting stronger during the winter towards the breeding season due to the warring of the feathers. The call of the Spanish Sparrow is deeper and less high-pitched than the House Sparrow. The wintering population arrives during October-November and leaves during February-March. And during the winter The Spanish Sparrow groups up in large flocks in agriculture fields and open lands. Those flocks make amazing aerodynamic maneuvers during the evening on their way to the roosting site that resembles flocks of starlings. The Spanish Sparrow breeds on trees in large and dense colonies much like the weavers in Africa and usually they choose to nest far from human inhabited places. Each colony may contain tens and even hundreds of ball-shaped nests, sometimes the sparrows may even take over abandoned nests of storks or raptures. In the past there were cases in which the large and dense colonies caused the collapsing of the tree on which they were built.The ball-shaped nest is big and sloppy with an opening hatch on its side. made from dry grass and thin branches, and its softened with feathers and animal hair. The female lays 4-6 shiny eggs and sits on them for 12 to14 days.
The chicks are fed for the first days with insects and later on they are gradually fed with different seeds and grains. Most of the breeding population reaches the breeding grounds during March-April and leaves during June-July. In some places the population remains resident but it also wandering locally after the breeding season. The distribution of the Spanish Sparrow is vast, from Spain and Portugal in the west, throughout southern Europe, northern Africa and the Middle-east, all the way to Kazakhstan, western China and northern India in the east. Two subspecies were classified in that distribution.

Arabic: الدوري الأسباني, الدوري الاسباني, العصفور الأندلسي, زرزور الجبل
Azerbaijani: Qaradöş sərçəsi
Bulgarian: Испанско врабче
Catalan: Gorrió de passa, Pardal de passa
Catalan (Balears): Gorrió de passa
Montenegrin: španski vrabac
Czech: Vrabec pokrovní, vrabec pokřovní
Welsh: Golfan Sbaen
Danish: Spansk Spurv
German: Italiensperling, Weidensperling
Greek: Αρκόστρουθος, Χωραφοσπουργίτης
Greek (Cypriot): Αρκόστρουθος
English: Spanish Sparrow, Willow Sparrow
English (IOC): Spanish Sparrow
Spanish: Gorrión Moruno
Spanish (Spain): Gorrión Moruno
Spanish (HBW): Gorrión moruno
Estonian: pajuvarblane
Basque: Pardal de passa , Txolarre ilun
Persian: گنجشک سینه‌سیاه
Finnish: Pajuvarpunen, pensasvarpunen
French: Moineau cisalpin, Moineau espagnol
Galician: Pardal de passa , Pardal mouro
Hebrew: דרור ספרדי
Croatian: Španjolski Vrabac
Hungarian: berki veréb
Armenian: [Ispanakan Chnchghuk ], Իսպանական Ճնճղուկ
Icelandic: Spánarspör
Italian: Passera d'Italia, Passera sarda, Passero spagnolo
Japanese: supeinsuzume
Japanese: スペインスズメ
Georgian: შავგულა ბეღურა
Kazakh: Қаратєс торғай
Scientific: Fringilla hispaniolensis, Passer hispaniolensis, Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis
Lithuanian: Ispaninis žvirblis
Latvian: melnkrūšu zvirbulis
Macedonian: Шпанско врапче
Moldavian: Vrabie negricioasă, Vrabie spaniolă
Maltese: Għammiel tal-Bejt, Ghasfur tal-Bejt
Dutch: Spaanse Mus
Norwegian Nynorsk: Middelhavssporv
Norwegian: Middelhavsspurv
Polish: wróbel poludniowy, Wróbel południowy, wróbel sródziemnomorski, wróbel śródziemnomorski
Portuguese: pardal espanhol, Pardal-espanhol
Portuguese (Portugal): Pardal-espanhol
Romansh: pasler d'Italia
Romanian: Vrabie negricioasă
Russian: Chernogrudy Vorobey, Воробей черногрудый, испанский воробей, Черногрудый (испанский) воробей, Черногрудый воробей, Черногрудый воробей - Испанский во...
Sindhi: ځىؼٚټ وٓ يٍ ا يٌٓ
Slovak: vrabec obojkový
Slovenian: travniški vrabec
Albanian: Harabeli gjokszi
Serbian: španski vrabac, Шпански врабац
Swedish: Spansk sparv
Swahili: Shomoro wa Hispania
Turkish: Bataklık Serçesi, Söğüt serçesi, Söşüt Serçesi
Ukrainian: Горобець чорногрудий , Чорногрудий горобець
Chinese: 黑胸麻雀
Chinese (Traditional): 黑胸麻雀




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