Brown-backed Mannikin

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Brown-backed Mannikin
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Lonchura
Species: L. nigriceps
Binomial name
Lonchura nigriceps
(Cassin, 1852)

The Brown-backed Mannikin or Brown-backed Munia Lonchura nigriceps is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa: Angola, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

It is found in moist savanna and subtropical/ tropical lowland moist forest habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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