Swahili sparrow
| Swahili sparrow | |
|---|---|
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| Adult at a bird feeder at Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. suahelicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Passer suahelicus Reichenow, 1904 | |
The Swahili sparrow (Passer suahelicus) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. It lives in the savanna of southern Kenya and Tanzania.[1] Until recently, it was usually treated as a subspecies of the northern grey-headed sparrow (Passer griseus), which it hybridizes with in southern Tanzania and possibly elsewhere.
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Passer suahelicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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