📌 We highlight key knowledge gaps and call for coordinated, large-scale monitoring to better understand the future of this iconic species.

Read the full open-access article:
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 48(1)

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🔍 What we found:
• 114 peer-reviewed studies since the 1980s
• Research heavily focused on health, biology & behaviour
• Very little work on conservation, even as local declines emerge
• Major geographic gaps
• Urbanization, changing agriculture, and human activity shape sparrow trends

🔑Keywords

Despite being one of the most familiar birds in our towns and farmlands, and one of the most studied worldwide, no integrative synthesis existed for Iberia… until now.

🗺️Map depicting the number of house sparrow studies in the Iberian Peninsula.