Old World Sparrows are only distantly related to the more familiar (and unfamiliar) New World Sparrows. Old World Sparrows are the Passeridae, 8 genera and 43 species. New World sparrows are the Passerellidae, 30 genera and 138 species. Even more confusingly, the Old World also offers Sparrow-Larks, Bush-Sparrows and Sparrow-Weavers, as well as Sparrowhawks (which…