Old World Sparrows (Passeridae) - HBW 14
Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus)
French: Moineau swahili
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Spanish: Gorrión Swahili
Taxonomy: Passer griseus suahelicus Reichenow, 1904, Bussissi, Mwanza district, northern Tanzania.
Forms a superspecies with P. griseus, P. swainsonii, P. gongonensis and P. diffusus; all are often treated as conspecific, but they appear not to interbreed in at least parts of their ranges where geographical overlap occurs. It is suggested that an earlier population of grey-headed sparrows was split into five groups by a pluvial period in Pleistocene; as climate became drier, these five then spread and again came into contact with one another, but by then had become sufficiently distinct to remain separate, partly through minor habitat preferences and morphologic.. View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies with P. griseus, P. swainsonii, P. gongonensis and P. diffusus; all are often treated as conspecific, but they appear not to interbreed in at least parts of their ranges where geographical overlap occurs. It is suggested that an earlier population of grey-headed sparrows was split into five groups by a pluvial period in Pleistocene; as climate became drier, these five then spread and again came into contact with one another, but by then had become sufficiently distinct to remain separate, partly through minor habitat preferences and morphological differences. Monotypic.
Distribution: S Kenya and N Tanzania S, patchily, to SW Tanzania.
- Least Concern
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