Shelley's sparrow

Shelley's sparrow

Shelley's rufous sparrow, White nile rufous sparrow

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Passer shelleyi

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. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow. This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.

Geography

References

1. Shelley's sparrow Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley's_sparrow
2. Shelley's sparrow on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22736010/132187775
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/269118

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