Shelley’s Sparrow
Shelley's sparrow (Passer shelleyi), also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow. This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.
Murchison Falls National Park
Uganda
+129 birds+30 mammals
Where the Victoria Nile surges through a narrow rocky chasm and plummets 43 metres in a thunderous cascade, Uganda’s oldest […]
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Bedewera, Ethiopia
+100 birds+6 mammals
Where acacia woodlands meet volcanic plateaus in southern Ethiopia, a landscape of austere beauty unfolds across nearly 2,500 square kilometers. […]
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