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 LC    Cut-throat* Id (Atlas):
    Amadina fasciata

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Cut-throat Finch, Cut-throat, Cut-throat Weaver

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Togo.

Introduced to Portugal (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A 'eee-eee-eee' uttered in flight.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Cut-throat Finch (Amadina fasciata) [XC509854]
     by id from Tarangire entrance road, Manyara, Tanzania (call)

 
Cut-throat Finch (Amadina fasciata) [XC350313]
     by Fernand Deroussen from AGHRYMET, Niamey, Niger (call)

Subspecies
Genus has been considered closer to Lonchura than to estrildine genera, as it has a thick bill. However, both behaviour and the molecular phylogeny support a relationship with estrildine waxbills, rather than with lonchurine munias. This species sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Red-headed Finch (Amadina erythrocephala).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • fasciata (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, northern Guinea, central and southern Mali, northern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, southern Niger and northern Nigeria east to Sudan and Uganda.
  • alexanderi Neumann, 1908   -  Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.
  • meridionalis Neunzig, 1910   -  Southern Angola, northern Namibia, southern and eastern Zambia, northern and eastern Botswana, western Zimbabwe, Malawi and northern Mozambique.
  • contigua Clancey, 1970   -  Southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and northern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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