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'''Common Name:''' Arabian Golden Sparrow<br>
'''Scientific Name:''' Passer euchlorus

'''Size:''' 5 inches (13 cm) 

'''Habitat:''' Africa and Asia; found in south west Arabia and also the coast of Somalia and Djibouti. 

It prefers thorn savanna and scrub habitats.

'''Status:''' Least Concern. '''Global Population:''' Unknown amount of mature individuals. The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

Diet: Seeds, occasionally insects. Sparrows are gregarious and mainly sedentary.

'''Nesting:''' Arabian Golden Sparrows are sexually dimorphic.  Male is golden yellow with white-edged black flight feathers and tail. Breeding female is greenish-grey above and pale yellow below, especial from chin to breast.  Non-breeding females and immature sparrows are grey-brown above and bluff white below with yellow restricted to the throat area.

2-4 eggs are laid in a woven nest located in trees.

'''Cool Facts:''' This species and ''Passer luteus'' formerly placed in a separate genus, ''Auripasser''. The two form a superspecies and in the past were often treated as conspecific.


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