Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) [XC610336]
by Giovanni Boano from Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria (call, song)
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) [XC300851]
by Bram Piot from Melka Ghebdu, Ethiopia (call)
Subspecies
Occasionally hybridizes with Blue-breasted Cordonbleu (Uraeginthus angolensis) in southern Tanzania (Songea, Mikindani).
Proposed subspecies littoralis (described from Mombasa, in Kenya) treated as a synonym of brunneigularis.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana east to southern Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, south to western Cameroon, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, Rwanda and Kenya (west of Rift Valley, south to L Victoria).
brunneigularis Mearns, 1911 - Southern Somalia and Kenya (from L Baringo east to coast) south to north-eastern Tanzania (south to North Pare Mts and Tanga).
ugogensis Reichenow, 1911 - Southern Kenya (Mara) and Tanzania (from Serengeti and Mt Kilimanjaro south to Rukwa, Usanga Flats and Iringa).
katangae Vincent, 1934 - Southern and south-eastern DRCongo (southern Kasai, Katanga), north-eastern Angola and northern Zambia.