Red-billed Quelea © nejohnston.org

Vagrant to Djibouti.

Proposed subspecies spoliator (described from KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa) is inseparable both morphologically and genetically from lathamii. Distribution of subspecies difficult to state with accuracy.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• quelea (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern Mauritania, western and northern Senegal, Gambia, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, south-western and southern Niger, northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, south-central Chad and northern Central African Republic.
• aethiopica (Sundevall, 1850)   -  Western, central and eastern Sudan, Ethiopia and western Eritrea south to north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya, central and eastern Tanzania and north-western and southern Somalia.
• lathamii (Smith, A, 1836)   -  South-western Gabon, southern PRCongo, Angola (except north-eastern and arid coastal south-west), southern DRCongo and R Congo mouth, Zambia, Malawi and western Mozambique south to Namibia (except coastal desert) and central, southern and eastern South Africa.

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