Great Sparrow

When to see the Great Sparrow

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Great Sparrow

The map shades 6 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 Zimbabwe.

About the Great Sparrow

The great sparrow, also known as the southern rufous sparrow, is found in southern Africa in dry, wooded savannah and towns.

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Easily confused with

Kenya SparrowPasser rufocinctusThe Kenya sparrow, also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. Parrot-billed SparrowPasser gongonensisThe parrot-billed sparrow is found in the arid lowlands of eastern Africa. Dead Sea SparrowPasser moabiticusAt 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long it is one of the smaller species of its family, some 4 cm (1.6 in) shorter than the widespread house sparrow.