Swahili Sparrow
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| Swahili Sparrow | |
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| Adult at a bird feeder at Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Infraorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Passeroidea |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. suahelicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Passer suahelicus Reichenow, 1904 |
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The Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. It lives in the savanna of southern Kenya and Tanzania.[1] Until recently, it was usually treated as a subspecies of the Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus), which it hybridizes with in southern Tanzania and possibly elsewhere.
[edit] References
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2009). "Passer suahelicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/149113. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
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