Sparrow tattoos get confused with swallow tattoos all the time. You should know the difference and conduct good research before you decide to get one inked. A sparrow is a small brownish grey bird. Sparrow tattoos have nothing to do with sailors. I'll tell you how you can get both good sparrow and swallow tattoos.
The sparrow tattoo became very famous with the popularity of the Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean series. Johnny's character Jack Sparrow had a sparrow tattoo on his arm. Many people have copied this tattoo. Johnny Depp actually had a real tattoo inked of a sparrow with Jack underneath it for his son, Jack. On his real tattoo, the bird is flipped around and looking inside, toward the body.
To get unique sparrow tattoos you should check out the bird in nature. If you don't know much about birds and don't know if you have any sparrows around, that's okay. Look online for pictures of sparrows. If it's blue, you got the wrong one. Once you see a sparrow and what its habitat is you can think of some things that will make your tattoo unique.
