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 LC    Dead Sea Sparrow* Id (Atlas):
    Passer moabiticus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Dead Sea Sparrow, Scrub Sparrow, Afghan Scrub Sparrow, Yates's Sparrow (yatii)

Family
Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Tristram, 1864

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. Also, inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Cyprus (B), Egypt, India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B) (NB) (P), Jordan (B) (NB), Pakistan, Palestinian Authority Territories (B) (NB) (P), Syrian Arab Republic (B) (NB), Turkey (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Bahrain, Greece, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates.

Population
Estimated population is 11,000 - 180,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

 
Dead Sea Sparrow (Passer moabiticus) [XC111950]
     by Alshayji from Birecik, Birecik, \u015eanl\u0131urfa, Turkey (song)

 
Dead Sea Sparrow (Passer moabiticus) [XC316906]
     by from Dihok, Duhok, Duhok, Iraq (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies yatii sometimes considered to be a separate species. Birds in southern Turkey, northern Syria, Iraq and south-western Iran sometimes treated as additional subspecies, mesopotamicus (described from south-western Iran), but character details appear indistinguishable from those of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • moabiticus Tristram, 1864   -  Southern Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, western Jordan, northern Syria and central Iraq east to south-western Iran.
  • yatii Sharpe, 1888   -  Seistan region, on borders of eastern Iran and south-western Afghanistan. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Afghan Scrub Sparrow (Passer yatii).



References
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Files:
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