Shelley's sparrow

Shelley's sparrow
A male in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. shelleyi
Binomial name
Passer shelleyi Sharpe, 1891
Synonyms
List Passer cordofanicus shelleyi Passer iagoensis shelleyi Passer motitensis shelleyi Passer rufocinctus shelleyi

A detail of an illustration by Henrik Grönvold, showing a male 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]

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22736010A132187775. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22736010A132187775.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi" . Retrieved 24 June 2010.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
4. 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