Grant's Bluebill

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Grant's Bluebill
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Spermophaga
Species: S. poliogenys
Binomial name
Spermophaga poliogenys
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1906)

The Grant's Bluebill (Spermophaga poliogenys) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 350,000 km².

It is found in the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

The common name of this species commemorates the British ornithologist Claude Henry Baxter Grant.

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