Shelley's Rufous Sparrow
Passer shelleyi
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
Shelley's sparrow, also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow. This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passeridae
- Genus
- Passer