| Dead Sea sparrow | |
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| Male (above) and female (below) in south-eastern Turkey | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Passer |
| Species: | P. moabiticus
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| Binomial name | |
| Passer moabiticus Tristram, 1864
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The Dead Sea sparrow (Passer moabiticus) is a species of bird in the Old World sparrow family Passeridae, with one subspecies breeding in parts of the Middle East and another in western Afghanistan and eastern Iran. The eastern subspecies P. m. yatii is sometimes considered a separate species known as Yate's sparrow.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2019) [amended version of 2017 assessment]. "Passer moabiticus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22718197A155610357. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22718197A155610357.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Shams, Bita; Pons, Jean-Marc; Abdelkrim, Jawad; Fuchs, Jérôme (October 2021). "Phylogeography and diversification of the Dead Sea Sparrow ( Passer moabiticus ) in Iran: insights from a multilocus approach". Ibis. 163 (4): 1355–1368. doi:10.1111/ibi.12957. ISSN 0019-1019. S2CID 233588532.