Rather strange/unusual sparrow behaviour!

[E-bmw]

I am currently in Spain & saw something the like of which I have never seen before.

We have all seen sparrows behaving in a "familial/social" way before but this was a bit stronger than that.

I had the misfortune to be driving along when a car coming the other way obviously hit a sparrow.

In the couple of seconds between the car that hit it & the next car following it the sparrow's 2 mates/family members that were flying with it were quite obviously trying to get the injured bird off the road/out of the way, which quite surprised me.

Unfortunately I was not able to retrace my steps to "help" the injured bird out, so please don't judge me in that respect.

Is this normal sparrow behaviour, I guess is my question?

[Simpo Two]

It may have looked like that but I doubt think sparrows have that much sentience, and you're assigning human characteristics to what you saw.

Did they succeed before being flattened by the next car?

[E-bmw]

You are probably correct it is just what it looked like and, and no, I had passed by then, so couldn't see.