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 LC    Bronze Munia* Id (Atlas):
    Spermestes cucullata

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Bronze Mannikin, Bronze Munia, Green-headed Mannikin, Bronze-winged Mannikin, Hooded Weaver, Hooded Weaver Finch, Hooded Mannikin(!)

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
9 - 10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1837)

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

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros (B), Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sâo Tomé e Principe (B), Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Introduced to Puerto Rico (B), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (E) (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Varied. Includes a 'rreep-rreeep' uttred inflight. A twittering when perched.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (53)...)

 
Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes cucullata) [XC605875]
     by Tony Archer from Limawa (by the banks of the Benue) Jimeta, Adamawa, Nigeria (?)

 
Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes) [XC326584]
     by James Bradley from Parc National du Banco, Ivory Coast (call)

Nest
A domed structure composed of grass located in a tree.

Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade in north-eastern DRCongo and Uganda. Proposed subspecies tessellata, described from Nampini (middle R Zambesi valley), in north-western Zimbabwe, is synonymized with scutata.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • cucullata (Swainson, 1837)   -  Senegambia, southern Mali, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia east to Nigeria, southern Chad and southern Sudan, south to Gabon, PRCongo, Central African Republic and western Kenya (west of Rift Valley). Also Bioko I (Fernando Póo) and other islands in Gulf of Guinea.
  • scutata (Heuglin, 1863)   -  Ethiopia and Kenya (east of Rift Valley) south to southern DRCongo, Angola, northern and eastern Botswana, Mozambique and central and south-eastern South Africa. Also islands off Tanzania (Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia), and Comoro Is.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Bronze Munia (Spermestes cucullata) - 10 files


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