Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera)

Other Names (World)
Red-winged Pytilia, Crimson-winged Pytilia, Aurora Finch, Aurora Waxbill, Aurora Pytilia

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry and moist shrubland, dry grassland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, 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 (1)...)

Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera) [XC402562]
by id from Bouna, Savanes, Ivory Coast (call)

Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera) [XC83772]
by Lars Lachmann from Bugungu Airstrip, Murchinson Falls National Park, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera) and Red-billed Pytilia (Pytilia lineata) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Pytilia phoenicoptera following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Probably forms a superspecies with Yellow-winged Pytilia (Pytilia hypogrammica) and Red-billed Pytilia (Pytilia lineata), and has been considered conspecific with Red-billed Pytilia (Pytilia lineata). Previously thought to be close to Orange-winged Pytilia (Pytilia afra), but such a relationship not supported by results of molecular-genetic studies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

phoenicoptera Swainson, 1837 - Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast east to south-eastern Burkina Faso, Benin and northern Nigeria.
emini Hartert, 1899 - Cameroon, southern Chad, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo and northern Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera) - 10 files

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