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Socotra Sparrow

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The "true sparrows" the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small Passerine Birds Generally sparrows tend to be Passer is a genus of Old World Sparrows Most of its members are found naturally in open habitats in the warmer climates of Africa and insularis

Binomial name

Passer insularis
Sclater & Hartlaub, 1881

The Socotra Sparrow (Passer insularis) is found on the islands of Socotra and Abd al Kuri in the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa. Philip Lutley Sclater ( November 4, 1829 - June 27, 1913) was an English Lawyer and Zoologist. Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub ( November 8, 1814 - November 29, 1900) was a German Physician and Zoologist. Socotra or Soqotra ( Arabic سقطرى; Suquṭra) is a small Archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean Abd al Kuri (' Abd-al-Kūrī, وعبد الكوري is an island between Socotra and Somalia. The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's Oceanic divisions covering about 20% of the water on the Earth 's surface The Horn of Africa (alternatively Northeast Africa, and sometimes Somali Peninsula; shortened to HOA) is a Peninsula in East Africa It likes dry areas and towns.

Some authorities have lumped Passer motitensis, P. rufocinctus and P. The Rufous Sparrow, Southern Rufous Sparrow or in South Africa the Great Sparrow, Passer motitensis, is found in Africa in dry wooded The Kenya Rufous Sparrow Passer rufocinctus is a Sparrow found in southern Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda insularis into P. motitensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

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