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

  Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 98,800,000km²
  Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding) : 98,300,000km²
  Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
  Breeding Endemic : No

Size : male 13.9–15 cm, female 13.9–15.1 cm;
male 18–28 g; female 20.5–26.5 cm

Subspecies (9) and Distribution

Passer montanus montanus (Linnaeus, 1758, 'in Europa'; restricted to Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, Italy, by Clancey 1948)
– 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, Akhalzykh, Transcaucasia)
– E Asia Minor and Caucasus region S to Armenia and E to N Iran (N of Elburz Mts).
Passer montanus dilutus (Richmond, 1896, Kashgar, Eastern Turkestan)
– Transcaspia to w Pakistan, Gobi Desert and w China (Xinjiang).
Passer montanus kansuensis (Stresemann, 1932, 'Heitsuitse, northern Kansu' [= above Sining on the Sining River, northeastern Tsinghai (fide Vaurie, t. c.)])
– N Gansu and Tsaidam Basin, in N China.
Passer montanus tibetanus (Stuart Baker, 1925, Khumbajong, Tibet)
– Southern and eastern Tibetan Plateau and central China (east to southeastern Qinghai and western Sichuan).
Passer montanus dybowskii (Domaniewski, 1915, Ussuri Valley and Korea; restricted to lat. 48° N. on the Ussuri by Vaurie, 1956)
– E Asia from extreme SE Russia (lower R Amur) S to NE China (E Inner Mongolia and Liaoning) and N Korea.
Passer montanus hepaticus (Ripley, 1948, Tezu, Mishmi Hills, NW. Assam)
– Extreme northeastern India (southeastern Arunachal Pradesh) and adjacent southeastern Tibet.
Passer montanus malaccensis (A. J. C. Dubois, 1885, Malacca)
– Central Myanmar, Malaya, Hainan, Vietnam and w Indonesia.
Passer montanus saturatus (Stejneger, 1885, Riu Kius [= Okinawa, according to Phillips (1947, Auk, 64, p. 126)])
– Sakhalin, S Kurils, Japan, S Korea, Ryukyu Is, Taiwan, Philippines, N Borneo and N Indonesian islands.