Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Black-cheeked Waxbill* |
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Estrilda erythronotos |
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Description (10)
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Black-cheeked Waxbill
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Other Names (World)
Black-faced Waxbill, Black-cheeked Waxbill, Abyssinian Red-rumped Waxbill, Red-rumped Waxbill (charmosyna, kiwanukae), Pink-bellied Black-cheeked Waxbill (charmosyna, kiwanukae), Pink-bellied Black-faced Waxbill (charmosyna, kiwanukae), Charmosyna Waxbill (charmosyna, kiwanukae)
Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)
Size
10 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.
Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a monotypic genus, Brunhilda, but such treatment seems unwarranted. Pinkish-bellied subspecies charmosyna and kiwanukae often considered to represent a separate species, distinct from darker-bellied nominate and delamerei. However, variation is apparently clinal, with belly colour becoming darker from north to south, and no differences in vocalizations or nestling appearance. Reported sympatry of the two groups in southern Kenya not confirmed, and, in any event, some birds might have been non-breeding migrants or wanderers.
Proposed subspecies pallidior (described from northern Guaso, on R Nyiro, in Kenya) is considered to be inseparable from charmosyna, and soligena (from Otjomassu Sandfield, in central Namibia) is synonymized with nominate.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
- charmosyna (Vieillot, 1817) - Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, southern Somalia, north-eastern Uganda and eastern Kenya. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Black-cheeked Waxbill (Estrilda charmosyna).
- delamerei Sharpe, 1900 - South-western Uganda, south-western Kenya and western and central Tanzania.
- kiwanukae van Someren, 1919 - South-eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Black-cheeked Waxbill (Estrilda charmosyna).
- erythronotos (Vieillot, 1817) - Southern Angola, south-western Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, northern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa (Limpopo south to northern Cape and western Free State).
References
See References.
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