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Kenya Rufous Sparrow

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Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Passer
Species: P. rufocinctus
Binomial name
Passer rufocinctus
Fischer & Reichenow, 1884

The Kenya Rufous Sparrow Passer rufocinctus is a sparrow found in southern Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savanna and in towns.

Some authorities have lumped Passer motitensis, P. rufocinctus and P. insularis into P. motitensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).


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