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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. rufocinctus
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| Passer rufocinctus Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884
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References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Passer rufocinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718206A94572392. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718206A94572392.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
- ^ a b 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
edit- 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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