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  • Kenya Rufous Sparrow, 1 of 6
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    (c) Ben Tsai蔡維哲, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Sergey Yeliseev, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Christian Artuso, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) lucdwa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) seasav, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Irina Bobyleva, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Kenya Rufous Sparrow

Passer rufocinctus

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About

The Kenya sparrow, also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow (Passer rufocinctus) is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savannah and agricultural areas. Some authorities have lumped the great sparrow (P. motitensis), the Kenya sparrow, and the Socotra sparrow (P. insularis) into P. motitensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993). Some authorities also lump Shelley's sparrow and the Kordofan sparrow with this species, or all three with the great sparrow.

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