Pale Rock-Finch, Pale Rock Sparrow, Moineau soulcie pâle, Pale Sparrow
Breeding Regions
PAL
Breeding Range Subregions
sc Palearctic in arid bushy broken terrain: sc, se Turkey through Armenia and w, s Azerbaijan to Iran, s Turkmenistan and wc Afghanistan, patchily s through Syria to s Israel, to n, c Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Musandam Pen. (n, c, e Arabian Pen.)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
to ne African semidesert and fields: s Arabian Pen., e Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and ne Ethiopia
(Bonaparte, 1850): NOTE(TAX,PHY: Recent phylogenetic analysis suggests that Carpospiza may share a common ancestor with Motacillidae and is better treated as a basal taxon within that family than as a member of Passeridae (Fjeldså et al. 2020). Retain as
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)