Shelley's sparrow
| Shelley's sparrow | |
|---|---|
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| A detail of an illustration by Henrik Grönvold, showing a Shelley's sparrow | |
| 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] This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.[4]
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ↑ BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- White Nile rufous sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection
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