Kenya Sparrow
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| 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 |
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| Passer rufocinctus Fischer and Reichenow, 1884 |
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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 savanna 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]
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2010). "Passer rufocinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/181436. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
- ^ Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer rufocinctus". http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8375&m=0. 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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