Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta)

Other Names (World)
Bar-breasted Firefinch, Speckled Firefinch

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Fraser, 1843)

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

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, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Niger.

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 (5)...)

Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta) [XC278378]
by Andrew Spencer from Gibe Gorge, Ethiopia (song)

Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta) [XC454658]
by id from Plaine du S\u00f4, Abomey-Calavi, Benin (begging call, call)

Subspecies
Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta) and Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include nitidula as a subspecies of Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta).

Forms a superspecies with Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula), and sometimes considered conspecific.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

rufopicta (Fraser, 1843) - Senegal, Gambia, south-western Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Chad and Central African Republic.
lateritia Heuglin, 1864 - Southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo, western Ethiopia, Uganda and south-western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta) - 10 files

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