Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch

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Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Nigrita
Species: N. bicolor
Binomial name
Nigrita bicolor
(Hartlaub, 1844)

The Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita bicolor is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,000,000 km².

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Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch inhabits subtropical/ tropical (lowland) forest, mangrove and shrubland habitats of Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo & Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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