Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita bicolor)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch, Cinnamon-breasted Negrofinch

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, S�o Tom� e Principe (B), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita bicolor) [XC860749]
by id from Western Area Forest Reserve, Sierra Leone (song)

Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita bicolor) [XC513860]
by Brendan Sloan from Parc National du Banco, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Poorly differentiated subspecies saturatior sometimes synonymized with brunnescens.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

bicolor (Hartlaub, 1844) - Western Gambia, south-western Senegal (Casamance), Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, south-western Mali, eastern Sierra Leone and Liberia east to Togo.
brunnescens Reichenow, 1902 - Southern Nigeria, Príncipe I, central and southern Cameroon and southern Central African Republic south to northern Angola and DRCongo (from lower R Congo east to Upper Uele, central Ituri, Kasai and Manyema).
saturatior Reichenow, 1902 - Albertine Rift in north-eastern DRCongo and Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita bicolor) - 10 files

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