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Estrilda paludicola

Includes Abyssinian Waxbill

[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

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. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Gill F & Wright M. 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 & Monroe BL. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
4. Sinclair I & Ryan P. 2003. Birds of Africa south of the Sahara. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0620207299

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