Shelley's sparrow (Passer shelleyi), also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.[1][2] Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow.[3] This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.[4]
Shelley's sparrow | |
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A male in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Passeridae |
Genus: | Passer |
Species: | P. shelleyi |
Binomial name | |
Passer shelleyi Sharpe, 1891 | |
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References
edit- ^ a b BirdLife International (2018). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22736010A132187775. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22736010A132187775.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-300-10359-X.
Works cited
edit- Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows: a study of the genus Passer. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-048-8.
External links
edit- White Nile rufous sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection
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