Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, lowland dry shrubland, lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,800 m, occasionally up to 2,420 m.
Landana Firefinch (Lagonosticta landanae) [XC701427]
by id from River Valley - Morro de Moco (ANGOLA BIRDING ROUTE), Angola (call)
Landana Firefinch (Lagonosticta landanae) [XC701414]
by Ken Behrens from River Valley - Morro de Moco (ANGOLA BIRDING ROUTE), Angola (call)
Subspecies
African Firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata) and Pale-billed Firefinch (Lagonosticta landanae) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include landanae as a subspecies of African Firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata).
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata).