Shelley's Sparrow

Shelley's Sparrow
A detail of an illustration by Henrik Grönvold, showing a Shelley's Sparrow
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Passerida
Superfamily: Passeroidea
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Passer
Species: P. shelleyi
Binomial name
Passer shelleyi
(Sharpe, 1891)

Shelley's Sparrow (Passer shelleyi), also known as Shelley's Rufous Sparrow or the White Nile Rufous Sparrow, is a sparrow found in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya.[1][2] It is frequently considered a subspecies of the Kenya Sparrow, which in turn is considered a subspecies of the Great Sparrow.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2010). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/181437. Retrieved 27 September 2010. 
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32619&m=0. Retrieved 24 June 2010. 
  3. ^ 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. 

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Sparrows (family: Passeridae)
Genus
Passer
Petronia
Carpospiza
Montifringilla
(snowfinches)