Rufous Sparrow

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Rufous Sparrow
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Passer
Species: P. motitensis
Binomial name
Passer motitensis
Smith, 1836

The Rufous Sparrow or Southern Rufous Sparrow (Passer motitensis) is found in Africa in dry, wooded savannah and towns.

Some authorities have lumped Passer motitensis, P. rufocinctus and P. insularis into P. motitensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

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