Orange-breasted Waxbill (Amandava subflava) [XC338906]
by Bram Piot from River wetland east of Mbala, Northern province, Zambia (call)
Orange-breasted Waxbill (Amandava subflava) [XC361881]
by Peter Boesman from Mbuela, Kisantu, Bas-Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic) (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Estrilda. Present species sometimes placed in a monotypic genus, Sporaeginthus. However, recent studies of mitochondrial DNA indicate monophyly with Green Avadavat (Amandava formosa) and Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava).
Proposed subspecies niethammeri (described from Huíla, in south-western Angola) considered inseparable from nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
subflava (Vieillot, 1819) - South-western Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, northern Liberia, northern Ivory Coast, south-western Mali, central Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Chad, Central African Republic, western and southern Sudan, Ethiopia, north, central and eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya and north-western Tanzania, also south-western Saudi Arabia and western Yemen.
clarkei (Shelley, 1903) - Southern Gabon, southern PRCongo, southern DRCongo and Tanzania (except north-west) south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and south-eastern South Africa.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet