Old World Sparrows (Passeridae)
White Nile Rufous Sparrow (Passer shelleyi) - HBW 14, p. 799
French: Moineau de Shelley
German: Nilsperling
Spanish: Gorrión de Shelley
Taxonomy: Passer shelleyi Sharpe, 1891, Lado, southern Sudan.
Forms a superspecies with P. iagoensis, P. cordofanicus, P. insularis, P. rufocinctus and P. motitensis, and all sometimes considered conspecific. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Sudan, NE Uganda, W Kenya, S & E Ethiopia and NW Somalia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A pair, the male on the left, in a bush. Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 6 years ago 23 sec 4 -
A male, and then a female, on the ground. Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 6 years ago 19 sec 4
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Female
Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
mark sutton 31 December 2006 3 years ago 4 -
An adult male perched on a branch.
Locality Negele Arsi, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 24 January 2009 20 weeks ago 3.7 -
Male
Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
mark sutton 31 December 2006 3 years ago 3
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