Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara)

Other Names (World)
Black-bellied Firefinch, Black-bellied Waxbill, Black-bibbed Firefinch

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Antinori, 1864)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna, pastureland.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara) [XC301458]
by id from coastal plains between Elmina and Komenda, Ghana (call, calls)

Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara) [XC719224]
by Rolf A. de By from Mole National Park, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

forbesi Neumann, 1908 - South-eastern Senegal, south-western Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and northern Sierra Leone east to Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
rara (Antinori, 1864) - Cameroon east to southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda and extreme western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

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