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Abyssinian Waxbill
Photo by volker sthamer
Hawassa, Ethiopia

Estrilda paludicola

Includes Abyssinian Waxbill - Estrilda ochrogaster

[edit] Identification

Length 11-12 cm. A plain waxbill with an orange bill.

[edit] Distribution

Africa: Southern Gabon, southern Congo, Angola, DRC, Zambia, western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, extreme south-eastern Sudan, Ethiopia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

Estrilda paludicola has six subspecies:¹

• E. p. ochrogaster

• Highlands of extreme south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia
• Considered a separate species (Abyssinian Waxbill) by Gill & Wright² and Sibley & Monroe³

• E. p. roseicrissa

• Southern Uganda to Rwanda, Burundi and extreme north-western Tanzania

• E. p. marwitzi

• Western Tanzania

• E. p. paludicola

• Eastern Congo to southern Sudan, north-eastern DRC, northern Uganda and western Kenya

• E. p. ruthae

• South-eastern Gabon to central DRC

• E. p. benguellensis

• Central Angola to southern DRC, northern Zambia and adjacent Tanzania

[edit] Habitat

Grassy savanna, highland grassland and heath, and rank vegetation, often near water.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Gill, F and M Wright. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276. Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
3. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
4. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

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