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 LC    Brown Firefinch* Id (Atlas):
    Lagonosticta nitidula

Description (10)
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Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1886

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Namibia, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Angola, south-eastern DRCongo, south-western Tanzania, Zambia, north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), northern Botswana and north-western 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 (8)...)

 
Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula) [XC339226]
     by Rick Nuttall from River wetland east of Mbala, Northern province, Zambia (call)

 
Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula) [XC552100]
     by Dries Van de Loock from Kamfinsa Area, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (call, song)

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 Bar-breasted Firefinch (Lagonosticta rufopicta), and sometimes considered conspecific.

Proposed subspecies plumbaria (described from Sepupa, in north-western Botswana) on average somewhat greyer than birds elsewhere in species' range, but no constant differences.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Brown Firefinch (Lagonosticta nitidula) - 10 files


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