I've just seen the movie Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). I found in various places (Wikipedia, IMDB…) that the first bird that Robert Stroud saved was a sparrow. As a Parisian, my idea of a sparrow is Passer domesticus , the so-called "house sparrow." And the bird in the movie did not look at all like a house sparrow. But I found out that in Kansas one can find quite a few different species of birds which are called "sparrows." So which among those...
Originally asked by Alfred on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
