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Shelley's sparrow
	A male in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. shelleyi
Binomial name
	Passer shelleyi; Sharpe, 1891
Synonyms
	List Passer cordofanicus shelleyi; Passer iagoensis shelleyi; Passer motitensis shelleyi; Passer rufocinctus shelleyi;

Shelley's sparrow (Passer shelleyi), 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.^[1]^[2] Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow.^[3] This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b BirdLife International (2018). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22736010A132187775. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22736010A132187775.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^ Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-300-10359-X.

Works cited

Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows: a study of the genus Passer. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-048-8.

External links

White Nile rufous sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection

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[iucn_status_11_November_2021-1] BirdLife International (2018). "Passer shelleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22736010A132187775. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22736010A132187775.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[2] BirdLife International (2010). "Species factsheet: Passer shelleyi". Retrieved 24 June 2010.

[ioc-3] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[4] Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-300-10359-X.

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