Chestnut Sparrow
Passer eminibey(Hartlaub, KJG, 1880)
English (US) Chestnut Sparrow
The Chestnut Sparrow (Passer eminibey) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Passeridae (Snowfinches and Old World Sparrows) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: central Chad, southwestern Sudan, South Sudan, and southwestern Ethiopia to northeastern Uganda, Kenya, and central and eastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Passer eminibey
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1880)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sorella eminibey
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1880)
- Type locality
- Lado.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 28, no.150 p.211,325
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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