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title: "Italian Sparrow"
description: "Passer italiae — Vogels. The Italian sparrow (Passer italiae), also known as the cisalpine sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean region."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/italian-sparrow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Italian Sparrow

> Passer italiae — Vogels. The Italian sparrow (Passer italiae), also known as the cisalpine sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean region.

- Scientific name: *Passer italiae*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `urban` (Steden en tuinen)
- iNaturalist observations: 16725
- Wikidata: [Q937933](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937933)
- iNaturalist taxon: [201233](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201233)

## Names

- en: Italian Sparrow
- de: Italiensperling
- es: Gorrión italiano
- fr: Moineau cisalpin
- pt: Pardal-italiano
- pl: Wróbel apeniński

## Countries with the most observations

IT (10338), CH (935), FR (569), GR (431), MT (43), VA (40), AR (3)

## Summary

The Italian sparrow (Passer italiae), also known as the cisalpine sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean region. In appearance, it is intermediate between the house sparrow, and the Spanish sparrow, a species of the Mediterranean and Central Asia closely related to the house sparrow. The Italian sparrow occurs in northern Italy and neighbouring regions, with intermediates with the house sparrow in a very narrow contact zone in the Alps, a slow gradation in appearance from the Italian to Spanish sparrows across central and southern Italy, and…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_sparrow

## Photo

![Italian Sparrow](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/italian-sparrow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Pietro Maiorana Montes · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200298655

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/italian-sparrow?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).