Western Bluebill (Spermophaga haematina)

Other Names (World)
Western Bluebill, Red-breasted Bluebill, Crimson-breasted Bluebill, Gabon Bluebill, Red-breasted Forest Weaver, Blue-billed Weaver, Blue-billed Waxbill

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1805)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland shrubland and 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, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

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 (22)...)

Western Bluebill (Spermophaga haematina) [XC425272]
by Peter Boesman from Abuko Nature Reserve, Gambia (call)

Western Bluebill (Spermophaga) [XC719478]
by id from Atewa Farmbush, Sagyimase, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Red-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga ruficapilla), and sometimes considered conspecific. The ranges of the two meet in north-east, eastern and southern DRCongo (Uele, Kivu and Kasai), where specimens are intermediate in plumage, but majority of birds are clearly of one or the other species, indicating that the two are distinct. Subspecies togoensis and pustulata intergrade in southern Cameroon.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

haematina (Vieillot, 1805) - Gambia, southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, south-western Mali, Guinea, and Sierra Leone east to Ghana.
togoensis (Neumann, 1910) - Togo east to south-western Nigeria.
pustulata (Voigt, 1831) - South-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic south to north-western Angola (Cabinda), east to north-east, eastern and southern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Western Bluebill (Spermophaga haematina) - 10 files

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