Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Tuesday 1 September 2015

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Passer montanus

树麻雀 (shù má-què)

Malay : Pipit Rumah

Japanese : スズメ (suzume) / コウジャク (kōjaku)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 雀 / 黄雀

Size : 14-15 cm, 17-30 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Passer montanus montanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
– from Europe E through NC Asia to Kamchatka and Commander Is, S to Mediterranean islands, Turkey, N Kazakhstan, NE Mongolia and NE China (N Inner Mongolia).
Passer montanus transcaucasicus (Buturlin, 1906)
– E Asia Minor and Caucasus region S to Armenia and E to N Iran (N of Elburz Mts).
Passer montanus dilutus (Richmond, 1896)
– Caspian Sea E to S Kazakhstan, NW China and W & S Mongolia.
Passer montanus kansuensis (Stresemann, 1932)
– N Gansu and Tsaidam Basin, in N China.
Passer montanus tibetanus (Stuart Baker, 1925)
– S & E Tibetan Plateau and C China (E to SE Qinghai and W Sichuan).
Passer montanus dybowskii (Domaniewski, 1915)
– E Asia from extreme SE Russia (lower R Amur) S to NE China (E Inner Mongolia and Liaoning) and N Korea.
Passer montanus iubilaeus (Reichenow, 1907)
– E China from Beijing S to E Sichuan and lower R Yangtze.
Passer montanus obscuratus (Jacobi, 1923)
– Nepal E to NE India.
Passer montanus malaccensis (A. J. C. Dubois, 1885)
– SE Asia from Myanmar E to Indochina and SE China (including Hainan), S to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, S Philippines, Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas.
Passer montanus saturatus (Stejneger, 1885)
– Sakhalin I, S Kurils, Japan, S Korea, Ryukyu Is, Taiwan, Philippines, N Borneo and N Indonesian islands.

Introduced (nominate race) in E USA, where now found in extreme EC Missouri and WC Illinois; also (probably malaccensis) in SE Australia, where now present SE Victoria and SE New South Wales (N to about Sydney).