Kenya sparrow

The Kenya sparrow (Passer rufocinctus), also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savannah 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]

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

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Passer rufocinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
2. Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
3. BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer rufocinctus". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
4. Dowsett & Forbes-Watson 1993
5. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-048-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Media related to the Kenya sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection