- Estrilda rhodopyga
Identification
10–10·5 cm (3¾-4 in)
Male
- Red lores
- Red stripe through eye to ear coverts
- Grey crown
- Greyish-brown upperparts
- Red rump
Distribution
Eastern Africa: found in Ethiopia, south-eastern Sudan, South Sudan, southern Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, northern Malawi.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Estrilda rhodopyga has two subspecies:1
- E. r. rhodopyga
- E. r. centralis
- Southern South Sudan, central and southern Ethiopia, and northern and southern Somalia south to northern Malawi
Habitat
Savanna with tall grass and bushes, forest edge, dry savanna, marshy grassland, secondary growth, plantations acacia woodland and gardens.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of small seeds and grass tips; also insects such as termites, ant larvae, spiders and aphids.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved August 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Crimson-rumped Waxbill. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Crimson-rumped_Waxbill
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1
