Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus)

Other Names (World)
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, Northern Gray-headed Sparrow, Common Grey-headed Sparrow, Common Gray-headed Sparrow

Family
Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry forest, dry savanna, urban areas, rural gardens, arable land. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (37)...)

Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) [XC719359]
by Peter Boesman from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) [XC425586]
by Oscar Campbell from Tujering, Gambia (song)

Subspecies
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus), Swainson's Sparrow (Passer swainsonii), Parrot-billed Sparrow (Passer gongonensis) and Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include swainsonii, gongonensis and suahelicus as subspecies of Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus).

Forms a superspecies with Swainson's Sparrow (Passer swainsonii), Parrot-billed Sparrow (Passer gongonensis), Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus) and Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus). All are often treated as conspecific.

Subspecies mosambicus of Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus) considered by some authors to be asubspecies of Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

laeneni Niethammer, 1955 - Mali and Burkina Faso east to western Sudan, south to northern Cameroon.
griseus (Vieillot, 1817) - Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Ivory Coast and to southern Sudan, south to northern Gabon and extreme northern Central African Republic. Also Bioko I (Fernandóo Po).
ugandae Reichenow, 1904 - Northern Ethiopia, northern Eritrea and south-eastern Sudan south to Angola, extreme northern Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, central and north-eastern Tanzania and northern and north-eastern Zimbabwe.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) - 10 files

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