Old World Sparrows (Passeridae)
Yellow-spotted Bush-sparrow (Gymnoris pyrgita) - HBW 14, p. 809
French: Moineau à point jaune
German: Sahelsteinsperling
Spanish: Gorrión Moteado
Other common names: Yellow-spotted Petronia/Rock-sparrow, Abyssinian Yellow-throated Petronia, Sudan Rock-sparrow/Petronia
Taxonomy: Xanthodina pyrgita Heuglin, 1862, Bogos Mountains, slopes of the Barca valley, Eritrea.
Genus often subsumed into Petronia. Forms a superspecies with G. xanthocollis, and sometimes treated as conspecific. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pallida Neumann, 1908 - S Mauritania and W Senegal E, very patchily, to C Sudan.
- pyrgita ( Heuglin, 1862) - Eritrea, SE Sudan, S Ethiopia and Somalia S to NE Uganda, Kenya and N Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An adult drinking Locality Nanyangacor, South Sudan (ssp pyrgita)
Marc de Bont 20 September 2005 5 years ago 24 sec 4.1 -
An adult bathing Locality Nanyangacor, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan (ssp pyrgita)
Marc de Bont 20 September 2005 5 years ago 19 sec 3.7 -
A bird in a tree, scratching its head and preening Locality Ginir, Ethiopia (ssp pyrgita)
Josep del Hoyo 4 December 2005 5 years ago 28 sec 3 -
Two birds in a tree and flying away. Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia (ssp pyrgita)
Josep del Hoyo 28 November 2005 5 years ago 21 sec 2.7
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This is a juvenile( identified by Peter Ryan)
Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Hervé MICHEL 1 November 2007 2 years ago 3.5 -
bird perched in tree
Locality Mount Kenya National Park, Kenya
chrisjohnson 1 June 1988 1 year ago 3 -
In a tree
Locality Sof Omar, Bale Province, Ethiopia
Guy Poisson 7 February 2010 1 year ago 2.7
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