I agree with you about the numbers of sparrows in Paris. Some years ago on a visit our family walked out of the Notre Dame Cathedral when I heard this loud chattering noise and discovered in the raised beds in front of the cathedral, planted with lavender, hundreds of sparrows. It was fascinating to watch them as I'd never seen so many in one place in the UK. And yet as a child in the 1950s, the sparrow was our most common garden bird.
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