Swahili sparrow

Swahili sparrow

Adult at a bird feeder at Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
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

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.

References

1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Passer suahelicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

External links

Media related to Passer suahelicus at Wikimedia Commons

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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