Black-crowned Waxbill (Estrilda nonnula)

Other Names (World)
Black-crowned Waxbill, Blackcap Waxbill, Blackcapped Waxbill, White-breasted Waxbill

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1883

Range (Guide)

Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

Black-crowned Waxbill (Estrilda nonnula) [XC739665]
by Peter Boesman from Nyarurambi, Rubanda, Uganda (call)

Black-crowned Waxbill (Estrilda nonnula) [XC99011]
by Mike Nelson from Kilum Ijim Protected Area, Lake Oku, Cameroon (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed with Black-headed Waxbill (Estrilda atricapilla) and Kandt's Waxbill (Estrilda kandti) in a separate genus, Krimhilda. Recent studies of mitochondrial phylogeny indicate that this species and nominate subspecies of Kandt's Waxbill (Estrilda kandti) form a sister-clade to nominate subspecies and subspecies avakubi of Black-headed Waxbill (Estrilda atricapilla).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

nonnula Hartlaub, 1883 - South-eastern Nigeria (Mambilla and Obudu Plateaux, Gashaka-Gumti Game Reserve) and Cameroon east to north-central and southern Central African Republic, south-eastern Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya, south to north-western Gabon, northern and eastern DRCongo (south to Itombwe Highlands) and north-western Tanzania.
eisentrauti Wolters, 1964 - Mt Cameroon (western Cameroon).
elizae Alexander, 1903 - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-crowned Waxbill (Estrilda nonnula) - 10 files

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