Kenya Sparrow

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Kenya Sparrow

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Suborder:	Passeri
Infraorder:	Passerida
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. rufocinctus
Binomial name
*Passer rufocinctus* Fischer and Reichenow, 1884

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]

References

↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Passer rufocinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
↑ Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
↑ 3.0 3.1 BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer rufocinctus". 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.

External links

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Kenya Rufous Sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection

v t e Sparrows (family: Passeridae)

Genus	Species

Hypocryptadius	Cinnamon Ibon

Passer	Saxaul Sparrow House Sparrow Spanish Sparrow Italian Sparrow Sind Sparrow Somali Sparrow Russet Sparrow or Cinnamon Sparrow Plain-backed Sparrow or Pegu Sparrow Dead Sea Sparrow Great Sparrow Socotra Sparrow Abd al-Kuri Sparrow Kenya Sparrow Kordofan Sparrow Shelley's Sparrow Iago Sparrow Cape Sparrow Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Swainson's Sparrow Parrot-billed Sparrow Swahili Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Desert Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow Sudan Golden Sparrow Arabian Golden Sparrow Chestnut Sparrow Passer predomesticus

Petronia	Yellow-spotted Petronia Yellow-throated Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia Bush Petronia Rock Sparrow

Carpospiza	Pale Rockfinch

Montifringilla (snowfinches)	White-winged Snowfinch Henri's Snowfinch Tibetan Snowfinch or Black-winged Snowfinch White-rumped Snowfinch Père David's Snowfinch Rufous-necked Snowfinch Blanford's Snowfinch Afghan Snowfinch

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