Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus)

Other Names (World)
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Red-cheeked Cordonbleu, Crimson-cheeked Blue Waxbill, Red-cheeked Blue Waxbill, Cordon-bleu

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna, rural gardens.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, USA (B), Zambia.

Vagrant to Liberia.

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 (84)...)

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) [XC593159]
by Bernard BOUSQUET from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (call)

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) [XC364104]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Gwassi Hills (eastern foothills), Nyanza, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
Occasionally hybridizes with Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus angolensis) in southern Tanzania (Songea, Mikindani).

Proposed subspecies littoralis (described from Mombasa, in Kenya) treated as a synonym of brunneigularis.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana east to southern Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, south to western Cameroon, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, Rwanda and Kenya (west of Rift Valley, south to L Victoria).
brunneigularis Mearns, 1911 - Southern Somalia and Kenya (from L Baringo east to coast) south to north-eastern Tanzania (south to North Pare Mts and Tanga).
ugogensis Reichenow, 1911 - Southern Kenya (Mara) and Tanzania (from Serengeti and Mt Kilimanjaro south to Rukwa, Usanga Flats and Iringa).
katangae Vincent, 1934 - Southern and south-eastern DRCongo (southern Kasai, Katanga), north-eastern Angola and northern Zambia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) - 10 files

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