Italian Sparrow

this Italian cock sparrow is rather fine

chatty lot too -

The Italian sparrow Passer domesticus italiae is charged with being a hybrid between the Spanish sparrow and the House Sparrow we know and love (in Europe, OK!). They sound pretty much like the house sparrows I am used to, but in Lugano, Switzerland, the sparrows are much bolder than the timid house sparrows I know at home


later on, with a Lugano church bell at the end