Shelley's Sparrow (Passer shelleyi) [XC537193]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Lambwe East, Homa Bay County, Kenya (call)
Shelley's Sparrow (Passer shelleyi) [XC269116]
by Andrew Spencer from Soda Plain, Ethiopia (begging call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Passer motitensis (Dowsett and Forbes-Watson 1993) has been split into six species: Great Sparrow (Passer motitensis), Kenya Sparrow (Passer rufocinctus), and Socotra Sparrow (Passer insularis) following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993), Urban (2004) and Kirwan (2008), and White Nile Sparrow (Passer shelleyi), Kordofan Sparrow (Passer cordofanicus) and Abd al Kuri Sparrow (Passer hemileucus) following Urban (2004) and Kirwan (2008).