Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow (Gymnoris pyrgita) [XC692101]
by id from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (begging call)
Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow (Gymnoris pyrgita) [XC510172]
by isaac kilusu from Kilimanjaro Golf and Wildlife Estate, Usa River, Arusha, Tanzania (call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow (Gymnoris xanthocollis), and sometimes treated as conspecific.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
pallida Neumann, 1908 - Southern Mauritania and western Senegal east, very patchily, to central Sudan.
pyrgita (Heuglin, 1862) - Eritrea, south-eastern Sudan, southern Ethiopia and Somalia south to north-eastern Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania.