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Kenya sparrow
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. rufocinctus
Binomial name
Passer rufocinctus Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884

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. 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). Some authorities also lump Shelley's sparrow and the Kordofan sparrow with this species, or all three with the great sparrow.

References

1. 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.
2. Summers-Smith 1988, pp. 86–87
3. ^ BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer rufocinctus". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
4. Dowsett & Forbes-Watson 1993
5. 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

• 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

• Media related to the Kenya sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection

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