Red-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga ruficapilla)

Other Names (World)
Red-headed Bluebill, Red-billed Bluebill, Red-headed Blue-billed Weaver, Red-headed Forest Weaver, Forest Seedcracker, Usambara Bluebill (cana)

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shelley, 1888)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], 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-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga) [XC740001]
by id from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (call)

Red-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga ruficapilla) [XC137899]
by Peter Boesman from Ngogo Research Camp, Kibale National Park, Kabarole, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Western Bluebill (Spermophaga haematina), 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.

Proposed subspecies kilgoris (described from Kilgoris, in south-western Kenya) treated as a synonym of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

ruficapilla (Shelley, 1888) - South-eastern Central African Republic, north-east, eastern and southern DRCongo, extreme southern Sudan, Uganda, western and central Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, western Tanzania and northern Angola.
cana (Friedmann, 1927) - Usambara Mts, in north-eastern Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga ruficapilla) - 10 files

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