Lesser Seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor)

Other Names (World)
Lesser Seedcracker, Nyasa Seedcracker, Nyasaland Seedcracker

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1894

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist lowland forest, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zimbabwe.

Southern Tanzania (southern from Udzungwa Mts and Uluguru foothills), Malawi, northern and central Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.

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)...)

Lesser Seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor) [XC660423]
by Daniel Lopez Velasco from Sanje, Morogoro, Tanzania (call)

Lesser Seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor) [XC440094]
by Dries Van de Loock from Sanje, Morogoro, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with Black-bellied Seedcracker (Pyrenestes ostrinus) and Crimson Seedcracker (Pyrenestes sanguineus), and all sometimes treated as conspecific. Thick-billed specimen from northern Mozambique (Elephant Bend, c. 100 km Wnorth-west of Mocuba) described as a new species, Pyrenestes vincenti, in 1955, and similar one from northern Malawi (Kabunduli) was thought to belong to same new species. However, both individuals now considered to represent size variants of present species.

References
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