Old World Sparrows (Passeridae) - HBW 14
White Nile Rufous Sparrow (Passer shelleyi)
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
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A pair, the male on the left, in a bush Negele, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 3 years ago 22 sec 4 -
A male, and then a female, on the ground Negele, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 3 years ago 17 sec 3.4
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Female Yabello, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
mark sutton 31 December 2006 34 weeks ago 4 -
Male Yabello, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
mark sutton 31 December 2006 34 weeks ago 3
- No sound recordings available yet
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