Shelley's sparrow
Shelley's sparrow (Passer shelleyi), also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.[1][2] Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow.[3] This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.[4]
| Shelley's sparrow | |
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| A male in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. shelleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Passer shelleyi (Sharpe, 1891) | |
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A detail of an illustration by Henrik Grönvold, showing a male Shelley's sparrow
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-300-10359-X.
Works cited
- Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows: a study of the genus Passer. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-048-8.
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