Red-headed Quelea

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Red-headed Quelea
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Ploceidae Genus: Quelea Species: Q. erythrops
Binomial name
Quelea erythrops (Hartlaub, 1848)

The Red-headed Quelea (Quelea erythrops) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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• BirdLife International 2004. Quelea erythrops. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.