Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia)

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, lowland dry and moist shrubland. From sea-level - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Ec, south-eastern.

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 (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) [XC235897]
by Daniel Danckwerts from Rubanda, Kabale, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) [XC46198]
by Martin St-Michel from Chilomo Forest, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Swee Waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis) and Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Estrilda melanotis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Swee Waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

quartinia (Bonaparte, 1850) - Ec, south-eastern.
kilimensis Sharpe, 1890 - Extreme south-eastern South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and northern and central Tanzania.
stuartirwini (Clancey, 1969) - Southern and eastern Tanzania to eastern Zimbabwe.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) - 10 files

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