Socotra sparrow

Socotra sparrow
on Socotra
Illustration
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. insularis
Binomial name
Passer insularis Sclater, PL & Hartlaub, 1881 [2]

The Socotra sparrow (Passer insularis) is a passerine bird endemic to the islands of Socotra, Samhah, and Darsah in the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa. ^{[3] [4]} The taxonomy of this species and its relatives is complex, with some authorities, including BirdLife International, recognising this species and the very similar Abd al-Kuri sparrow, as well as several from mainland Africa, as separate, ^{[5] [6]} and others lumping all these species and the probably unrelated Iago sparrow. ^[7]

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Passer insularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22736000A132187599. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22736000A132187599.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
2. Sclater, P. L.; Hartlaub, G. (1881). "On the Birds collected in Socotra by Prof. I. B. Balfour". Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1881. Vol. 1881. pp. 165–175.
3. Balfour, I. B.; Forbes, Henry O. (1903). "The Birds of Sokotra". In Forbes, Henry O. (ed.). The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-kuri. London: R. H. Porter.
4. Shelley 1902 , pp. 238–239
5. BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer insularis" . Retrieved 24 June 2010.
6. 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.
7. Summers-Smith 1988 , p. 92

Works cited

• Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1888). Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: Part III. Containing the Family Fringillidæ.
• Shelley, G. E. (1902). The Birds of Africa, Comprising All the Species Which Occur in the Ethiopian Region. Vol. III. London: R. H. Porter.
• 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

• Pictures of the Socotra sparrow
• Socotra sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection