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Sparrow Fun facts for kids
Passer domesticus
The sparrow lives in towns and farms around the world and eats seeds, crumbs and insects.
- Where it lives
- in towns and farms around the world
- What it eats
- seeds, crumbs and insects
- How big it is
- about as long as a grown-up's hand
Fun facts about the sparrow
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
Sparrows take baths in dust, wriggling around in dry dirt to clean their feathers.
On the ground, a sparrow usually hops with both feet together instead of walking.
Boy sparrows have a black bib on their throat, and the ones with bigger bibs are often bossier.
A sparrow mum and dad can raise up to four families of chicks in just one year.
Sparrows live on every continent except icy Antarctica, so you can find them almost anywhere.
At night, sparrows sleep together in groups, hidden in thick hedges or ivy.
Grown-up sparrows mostly eat seeds, but they feed their babies lots of bugs to help them grow.
Sparrows never fly away for winter, and most stay close to where they hatched their whole life.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I'm small and I can fly, and I live near people's houses almost everywhere in the world.
I never fly away for winter, and at night I sleep in thick hedges with my flock.
I take baths in dry dust, wriggling around to clean my feathers.
The boys in my family wear a black bib, and the ones with bigger bibs are bossier.
I'm small and brown, I hop around, chirp all day and peck at bread crumbs.
Sammy might be thinking of a sparrow.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the sparrow in the Farm adventure. It's free to play.
Play the FarmComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
