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 LC    Magpie Munia* Id (Atlas):
    Spermestes fringilloides Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Spermestes fringilloides

Other Names (World)
Magpie Mannikin, Magpie Munia, Pied Mannikin, Pied Munia, Pied Grassfinch, Pied Weaver Finch, Giant Mannikin

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lafresnaye, 1835)

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

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Namibia.

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia east, very patchily, to Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, south to Gabon, northern and south-western Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

 
Magpie Mannikin (Spermestes) [XC176693]
     by Sander Bot from Bobiri Butterfly Reserve, Ghana (call)

 
Magpie Mannikin (Spermestes) [XC153916]
     by Phil Gregory from Kitwe Tailings Dam, Kitwe, Copperbelt, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Birds from Dondo Forest, in southern Mozambique, described as subspecies pica, but appear to differ little from those elsewhere in species' range.


References
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Files:
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