Lavender Waxbill (Estrilda coerulescens)

Other Names (World)
Lavender Waxbill, Lavender Finch, Lavender Firefinch, Red-tailed Lavender Waxbill

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, C�te dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, USA (B).

Vagrant to Liberia.

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, northern Guinea and southern Mali (upper R Niger) east to northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Chad and northern Central African Republic.Introduced in Hawaiian Is.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Lavender Waxbill (Estrilda caerulescens) [XC359077]
by id from Diemb\u00e9ring (dunes), Oussouye, Casamance, Senegal (call)

Lavender Waxbill (Estrilda caerulescens) [XC719126]
by Bram Piot from Tongo Hills, Upper East, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Has been thought to form a superspecies with Black-tailed Waxbill (Estrilda perreini), possibly with Cinderella Waxbill (Estrilda thomensis) included in same grouping.

References
See References.

Files:

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