Kenya sparrow
| Kenya sparrow | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Infraorder: | Passerida |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. rufocinctus |
| Binomial name | |
| Passer rufocinctus Fischer and Reichenow, 1884 | |
The Kenya sparrow, also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow (Passer rufocinctus) is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savannah and agricultural areas.[2][3] Some authorities have lumped the great sparrow (P. motitensis), the Kenya sparrow, and the Socotra sparrow (P. insularis) into P. motitensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).[3][4] Some authorities also lump Shelley's sparrow and the Kordofan sparrow with this species, or all three with the great sparrow.[5]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Passer rufocinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ↑ Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer rufocinctus". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ↑ Dowsett & Forbes-Watson 1993
- ↑ Kirwan, Guy M. (2008). "Studies of Socotran Birds III. Morphological and mensural evidence for a 'new' species in the Rufous Sparrow Passer motitensis complex endemic to the island of Abd 'Al Kuri, with the validation of Passer insularis Sclater & Hartlaub, 1881". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 128 (2): 83–93.
Works cited
- Dowsett, R. J.; Forbes-Watson, A. D. (1993). Checklist of birds of the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. Liège, Belgium: Tauraco Press.
- Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-048-8.
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