Arabian Golden Sparrow

When to see the Arabian Golden Sparrow

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Arabian Golden Sparrow

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Israel.

About the Arabian Golden Sparrow

The Arabian golden sparrow is a sparrow found in south west Arabia and also the coast of Somalia and Djibouti where it occurs in thorn savannah and scrub habitats. It is sometimes considered as a subspecies of the Sudan golden sparrow.

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Easily confused with

Socotra SparrowPasser insularisThe Socotra sparrow is a passerine bird endemic to the islands of Socotra, Samhah, and Darsah in the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa. Zarudny's SparrowPasser zarudnyiZarudny's sparrow, also known as the Asian desert sparrow, is a species of bird in the sparrow family Passeridae, which occurs in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and formerly in Iran. Abd al-Kuri SparrowPasser hemileucusThe male sparrow is brown and gray and has a streak on its back.