Kenya Rufous Sparrow

Kenya Rufous Sparrow

Taxobox
name = Kenya Rufous Sparrow



regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Passeridae
genus = "Passer"
species = "P. rufocinctus"
binomial = "Passer rufocinctus"
binomial_authority = Fischer & Reichenow, 1884
The Kenya Rufous Sparrow "Passer rufocinctus" is a sparrow found in southern Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savanna and in towns.

Some authorities have lumped "Passer motitensis", "P. rufocinctus" and "P. insularis" into "P. motitensis" following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).


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